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(WKRG) – Watch out for the hunters! Chronic debilitating disease at was located nearly 50 miles from the Alabama border. A second deer in the Lower Mississippi Delta in Issaquena County tested positive for MDC last week. The first case was discovered in January at the same place. But there have also been cases in North and central parts of Mississippi.
"Hunters from several counties of Alabama are now on alert." The highest official of Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater and the event we come here, we are quite willing to fix it to minimize the risks, "said an Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater and Fisheries Officer.
Here is some more information about CWD:
Chronic debilitating disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) in mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk (or "elk"), moose and caribou. In 2016, the MDC was found only in members of the deer family.[1] Recognized for the first time as a clinical syndrome of "dieback" in 1967 in a mule deer at a wildlife research center in northern Colorado, USA, it was identified as a TSE in 1978 and was is extended to free and captive populations in 23 provinces.[2] MDC is characterized by chronic weight loss leading to death. No relationship is known between the MDC and other ESTs of animals or people.
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