Chronic Wasting Disease

Scope

The resources listed below can be used to locate information on chronic wasting disease (CWD) and related diseases.

Periodical Articles

Use the following databases to find articles on this topic.

Ebsco
Contains articles from over 5000 magazines and journals covering a wide variety of topics.

NewsBank
This database includes news from the United States and around the globe.

Sample searches for the above databases:
Chronic wasting disease
Prions
Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies

Websites

Chronic Wasting Disease in Wisconsin

http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/ORG/LAND/wildlife/whealth/issues/CWD/

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is responsible for this site. Visitors will find recent news, publications and maps concerning the disease.

Chronic Wasting Disease
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/animal_diseases/cwd/

This site provides a brief history of the disease along with information on the cause, clinical signs, and causative agents.

Citizens Against Irrational Deer Slaughter
http://www.caids-wi.org/

This site is maintained by a group that seeks to “provide a reasoned response and intelligent alternatives to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Chronic Wasting Disease proposal to kill and incinerate over 25,000 white-tailed deer and thereby eliminate the species in a 500+ square mile area of Southwest Wisconsin.”

Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSE)
http://www.nj.gov/agriculture/divisions/ah/diseases/tse.html

The New Jersey Department of Agriculture provides background information on diseases such as CWD, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

Updated 10/2009