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From: TSS ()
Subject: Additional Cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (9) in Imported Deer in Korea
Date: September 8, 2005 at 11:56 am PST
Additional Cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in Imported Deer in Korea
Tae-Yung KIM1)3), Hyun-Joo SHON2), Yi-Seok JOO2), Un-Kyong MUN2), Kyung-Sun KANG3) and Yong-Soon LEE3)
1) Animal Health Division, Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry
2) National Veterinary Research & Quarantine Service
3) Department of Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University
(Received 21-Jan-2005)
(Accepted 27-May-2005)
ABSTRACT. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), which had previously occurred only in the U.S.A. and Canada, broke out in a farm at Chungbuk, Korea from imported Canadian deer (Aug. 8, 2001). CWD distribution, through surveillance and epidemiologic investigations, was reported for 93 deer (43 from the CWD originating farm and 50 imported with the CWD originating farm's deer) out of 144 deer (72 from the CWD originating farm and 72 imported with the CWD originating farm's deer) that were breeding at 30 different farms. On Oct. 4 and Oct. 8, 2001, additional cases of CWD were investigated. As a result of slaughtering cohabitating deer, it was verified that other imported deer from Canada were also infected with CWD. Since it was thought that this might cause horizontal transmission, 93 deer imported from Canada in 1997 and 130 cohabitating Korean deer were slaughtered and examined. There were no infected Korean deer, but CWD re-occurred on Nov. 20, 2004 and is still under investigation.
KEY WORDS: Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), horizontal transmission
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jvms/67/8/67_753/_article
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http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jvms/67/8/753/_pdf
GWs BSE/TSE MRR policy is looking deadlier and deadlier everyday. ...TSS
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