A deer that will be shoulder-mounted can still be tested for CWD. The deer should be registered, then taken to your taxidermist for caping and skull capping. The caped head can then be brought to a sampling station. Please remember to follow all sample preservation guidelines.
A European mount can be brought to a staffed sampling station that will remove the lymph nodes for sampling, allowing the skull to stay with the hunter. Call ahead to ensure the station will be staffed at the time you plan to arrive.
Once a hunter submits a sample, test results are added as they become available. During an average year, results are available days after the deer is brought to a sampling station. The DNR does not intend to prevent hunters from moving a deer head and hand-width length of neck outside a CWD-affected county if it is being transported to an approved CWD sampling cooperator, self-service kiosk or staffed CWD testing location to submit the head for tissue removal and testing.
Once samples are submitted, it takes about two 2 weeks to get results. CWD test results are listed in the table below by harvest confirmation number.
Hunters who have had their deer tested for CWD will also receive the results by way of an email. Search all data. It is a good idea to make sure that your TWRA account has an up to date email address. To do that, go to GoOutdoorsTennessee. If you have waited more that four 4 weeks and have not received your test results, please contact Joy Sweaney joy.
Household pets also consume venison, as the ingredient is common in commercial cat and dog food. CWD is a progressive neurodegenerative disease—a member of a family of diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. It was first documented in ; by it was confirmed in 26 states and three Canadian provinces, as well as in Sweden, Norway, Finland, and South Korea.
It affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, red deer, sika deer, caribou, reindeer, elk, and moose—animals known as cervids. CWD-causing prions lack genetic material and can only be destroyed with specialized equipment or strong chemicals, which is what makes CWD so difficult to mitigate.
Chronic wasting disease is an always fatal infection that afflicts deer, elk and moose. It was first documented in the wild in Montana in a mule deer buck killed in Carbon County in As technicians got ill, fewer samples were collected than originally hoped. For those tests that were performed, however, having the work done at the state lab in Bozeman helped speed the turnaround time, she added. Hunters who kill game infected with CWD are advised not to eat the meat, although no connection has yet been established between eating an ill animal and becoming infected.
However, an outbreak of a similar disease in — Mad Cow Disease known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease in humans — was linked to humans consuming infected cattle in Britain. CWD and CJD are both believed to be caused by abnormally folded proteins known as prions that trigger other prions to mis-fold, resulting in nerve and brain damage.
The proteins may survive on plants and in the soil for long periods.
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