Posts Tagged: wasting
Deer Carcass Decomposition and Potential Scavenger Exposure to Chronic Wasting Disease
June 30, 2019
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy afflicting the Cervidae family in North America, causing neurodegeneration and ultimately death. Although there are no reports of natural cross-species transmission of CWD to noncervids, infected deer carcasses pose a potential … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases | Tagged carcass, chronic, decomposition, exposure, potential, scavenger, wasting
A Model Analysis of Effects of Wolf Predation on Prevalence of Chronic Wasting Disease in Elk Populations of Rocky Mountain National Park
June 30, 2019
Increasing mortality rates in diseased populations can retard disease transmission and reduce disease prevalence (Barlow 1996, Lafferty and Holt 2003, Packer et al. 2003, Ostfeld and Holt 2004). Increasing mortality slows transmission via two mechanisms. First, it reduces the average … read more
Posted in CWD & Other Diseases | Tagged analysis, chronic, effects, model, predation, prevalence, wasting
