Email from Richard Auwerda, NADC Animal Caretaker Supervisor to Ronald Morgan, National Veterinary Services Laboratories veterinarian - February 28, 2006
From: "Richard
Auwerda"<rauwerda@nadc.ars.usda.gov>
To:<Michelle.L.Crocheck@aphis.usda.gov>,<Ronald.L.Morgan@aphis.usda.gov>
Cc:
<John.B.Pithan@aphis.usda.gov>,<Nathaniel.M.Davis@aphis.usda.gov>,"Amirali
Hamir"<ahamir@nadc.ars.usda.gov>,"David Alt"<dalt@nadc.ars.usda.gov>,"Justin
Greenlee"<jgreenlee@nadc.ars.usda.gov>,"Terry
Krausman"<tkrausma@nadc.ars.usda.gov>
Sent: 02/28/2006 09:49AM
Subject: RE: ELK PROJECT AT NVSL - keys
for access to B2
Dr Morgan - Thanks. I am assuming at some point in the not to distant future
we will all (NVSL/NADC/CVB) have to be on the same page with risk
assesment(?). My concerns are two-fold;
1) With NADC lowering the risk of prions, how do I explain to caretakers
(who are already leary about the proposed changes to NADC protocols) and (2)
What the animal care staff tells thier subsequent famalies and others they
talk to, about the contradiction in risk assesment/protocols, without it, at
the very LEAST appearing like NADC is taking unjustified risks (for
instance: Those elk can be kept on bedding and drains sealed for another
five years...BUT when those elk are brought to B5 at NADC, both in the
future and in the past, to necropsy the CNS blood, some tissues, feces, etc
are washed down the drain. What have you gained?).
Thanks again for helping me understand, so
I in turn can explain it to my staff