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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 359776" data-attributes="member: 605">I used to know the names of all four research facilities in Wyoming Colorado. Fort Collins Foothills Wildlife Research FacilitySybille Wildlife Research Facility WyomingLooking for the other two this below popped up. <a href="https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/08/23/cdc-tse-mad-cow-chronic-wasting-disease-linked-fort-collins/878097002/" target="_blank">https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/08/23/cdc-tse-mad-cow-chronic-wasting-disease-linked-fort-collins/878097002/</a>The first documented case of CWD in Canada was at the Toronto Zoo 1981 from deer they received from a zoo in Denver.  <h2>Chronic wasting disease timeline</h2>1967: Wasting syndrome is observed in captive mule deer at the Colorado State University wildlife research facility in west Fort Collins.1975−81: Wasting syndrome is observed in Toronto Zoo mule deer transferred from the Denver Zoo.1979: Recognized in captive mule deer at Wyoming wildlife research facility.1981: Detected in wild elk in Colorado.1985: Detected in wild mule deer in Colorado and Wyoming.1996: Detected in a captive elk farm in Saskatchewan; 38 other linked farms eventually found positive.1997: Detected in captive elk facilities in South Dakota.1998: Detected in captive elk facilities in Montana and Oklahoma.(Fritz tidbit) The facility in Montana purchased animals from the Vet in South Dakota. I do not believe he had very many. They were all incinerated at $8,000 per head.1999: World Health Organization indicates no evidence CWD is transmissible to humans, but advises that exposure should be avoided.2000: Detected in wild mule deer in Nebraska and Saskatchewan.2002: Colorado establishes guidelines to minimize transport of high-risk carcass materials. First International CWD Symposium is held in Denver.(Fritz tidbit) Carcass and disposal options may be regulated someday by the (EPA) or Environmental Protection Agency. There are nine federal members of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. EPA is one. 2002: Detected in captive elk in Minnesota, wild and captive white-tailed deer in Wisconsin and Illinois, mule deer in New Mexico and elk in South Dakota.2003: Detected in wild mule deer in Utah.2004: Detected in wild elk in New Mexico.2005: Detected in moose in Colorado.2008: Research indicates CWD may be a plausible explanation for local deer population declines in Colorado.2010: Detected in captive white-tailed deer in Missouri and wild white-tailed deer in North Dakota and Virginia.2016: Detected in wild elk and white-tailed deer in Arkansas and wild reindeer in Norway.</blockquote>

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