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Chronic wasting disease found in venison
Study shows CWD prions viable in muscle tissue
North Forty News - March 2006
Study cites new CWD fear
Afflicted deer have infectious agents in leg-muscle tissue
Rocky Mountain News - January 27, 2006
Prions in Skeletal Muscles of Deer with Chronic Wasting Disease - Angers, et al.
www.sciencexpress.org - January 26, 2006 (pdf)
Prions in Skeletal Muscles of Deer with Chronic Wasting Disease - Angers, et al. (Supporting Online Material)
ww.sciencexpress.org - January 26, 2006 (pdf)
RELATED MATERIAL:
Prions in skeletal muscle - Bosque, et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - March 19, 2002 (pdf)
Detection of prions in blood - Castilla, et al.
Nature Medicine - August 28, 2005 (abstract)
Subclinical prion infection in humans and animals - Hill and Collinge
British Medical Bulletin - 2003 (abstract)
Abnormal Prion Protein in Ectopic Lymphoid Tissue in a Kidney of an Asymptomatic White-tailed Deer Experimentally Inoculated with the Agent of Chronic Wasting Disease - Hamir, et al.
Veterinary Pathology - 2006 (abstract)
Abundant PrP(CWD) in tonsil from mule deer with preclinical chronic wasting disease - O'Rourke, et al.
Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation - July 2003 (abstract)
Evidence of a molecular barrier limiting susceptibility of humans, cattle and sheep to chronic wasting disease - Raymond, et al.
Chronic Wasting Disease and Potential Transmission to Humans - Belay, et al.
Emerging Infectious Diseases - June 2004 (pdf)
Monitoring Suspected Links to Chronic Wasting Disease
Alzheimer's Association - April 8, 2003
Chronic Wasting Disease of Elk: Transmissibility to Humans Examined by Transgenic Mouse Models - Kong, et al.
The Journal of Neuroscience - August 31, 2005 (pdf)
Best management practices for handling suspect Biosafety Level 2 animal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) diagnostic samples (scrapie, chronic wasting disease and transmissible mink encephalopathy) in animal health laboratories
American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians - February 18, 2004 (pdf)
Prion Infection of Skeletal Muscle Cells and Papillae in the Tongue - Mulcahy, et al.
Journal of Virology - July 2004
Prion Infection of Mucosal Tissue - Bessen, et al.
2nd International Chronic Wasting Disease Symposium- July 12, 2005
Detection and Localization of PrPSc in the Skeletal Muscle of Patients with Variant, Iatrogenic, and Sporadic Forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease - Peden, et al.
American Journal of Pathology - 2006 (abstract)
A Fact Sheet for Consumers on CWD and Venison Safety
University of Wisconsin-Extension - 2002 (pdf)
New studies on the heat resistance of hamster-adapted scrapie agent: Threshold survival after ashing at 600°C suggests an inorganic template of replication - Brown, et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - March 28, 2000 (pdf)
Ultra-high-pressure inactivation of prion infectivity in processed meat: A practical method to prevent human infection - Brown, et al.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - May 13, 2003 (pdf)
'Endemic' and economics -
Larimer County reports minimal impact on business from CWD
Craig Daily Press - May 16, 2002
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Docs want to check hunters
Rocky Mountain News - August 9, 2002
Scientists watching for CWD in humans
Denver Post - December 16, 2004
Is wasting disease linked to human ailment?
Fort Collins Coloradoan - April 13, 2004
Oral transmission of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and scrapie to nonhuman primates - Gibbs, et al.
Journal of Infectious Diseases - August 1980 (abstract)
Brain biopsy in dementia - Warren, et al.
Brain - A journal of Neurology - May 18, 2005 (abstract)
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and inclusion body myositis: Abundant disease-associated prion protein in muscle - Kovacs, et al.
Annals of Neurology - December 30, 2003 (abstract)
Long-Term Subclinical Carrier State Precedes Scrapie Replication and Adaptation in a Resistant Species: Analogies to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in Humans - Race, et al.
Journal of Virology - November 2001 (pdf)
Transmission of Elk and Deer Prions to Transgenic Mice - Tamgüney, et al.
Journal of Virology - September 2006 (abstract)