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Wyoming discovers CWD in another deer hunt area
News briefToday at 2:10 p.m.
Mary Van Beusekom, MS
Topics
Chronic Wasting Disease
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has encroached into another deer hunt area in Wyoming, state officials reported this week.
The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said in a news release that the fatal neurodegenerative disease was discovered for the first time in Deer Hunt Area 156 in the Jackson Region. The affected animal was a mule deer buck.
The finding comes just a week after the department confirmed the first detection of CWD in Deer Hunt Area 141.
Jackson is in Teton County in the western part of the state, just east of the Idaho border. “Deer Hunt Area 156 is bordered by CWD-positive deer hunt areas 128 (positive in 2016), 148 (positive in 2021), 155 (positive in 2022) and Grand Teton National Park (positive in 2018),” the release said.
Health authorities urge caution with meat, carcasses
CWD affects cervids such as deer, moose, and elk. It’s caused by misfolded proteins called prions, which spread through infected body fluids and environmental contamination. Symptoms include discoordination, weight loss, and excessive drooling.While CWD is not known to affect people, health authorities recommend against eating the meat of infected or sick cervids and urge caution when handling their carcasses.
Quick takes: CDC seeks nominations for vaccine advisory board, West Virginia probes Salmonella outbreak, 4 countries report polio
News briefToday at 1:29 p.m.
Chris Dall, MA
Topics
Salmonella
Polio
Public Health
Foodborne Disease
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is seeking nominations for membership on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). The committee, which makes vaccine recommendations to the CDC, has been in limbo since a federal judge ruled in March that many of its members had been improperly appointed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The CDC said in a posting this week in the Federal Register that nominees will be selected “to represent a balanced range of scientific, clinical, and public health expertise relevant to the Committee’s mission, including person(s) knowledgeable about consumer perspectives and/or social and community aspects of immunization programs.”
- Health officials in West Virginia are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium that has sickened 41 people since September, according to local media reports. Patients range in age from 3 to 54. Officials say no common source has been identified yet in the outbreak, in which five people have been hospitalized. Typhimurium is one of the top serovars isolated in human Salmonella infections, which are typically caused by contaminated water or food. In an advisory, state health officials urged healthcare providers to consider Salmonella infection in patients with acute diarrhea and to report cases to their local health department.
- Amid its ongoing Ebola outbreak, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this week reported seven cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) with paralysis onsets in September, according to the latest update from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. DRC has now reported 84 cVDPV2 cases for the year. Also reporting polio cases this week were Nigeria and Niger, which each reported a case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 3, and Pakistan, which reported a case of wild poliovirus type 1.