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<blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 244297" data-attributes="member: 605">Everyone is interested in the studies feeding or injecting cwd material to monkeys. There have been many similiar studies with sheep dairy cows etc. Dr. Beth Williams was the lead researcher at government facilities for years where they did nutritional studies on mule deer in Wyoming and Colorado. CWD infected material was sent to many different states to experiment on lab mice and rats. I believe it was 2003 when a Wisconsin Representative made this claim:State Representative Garey Bies regarding where CWD came from in Wisconsin.: 

&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Also regarding Chronic Wasting Disease, I was quite shocked to learn that the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1988 inoculated live animals with CWD. One type of animal that was inoculated was mule deer. And I find it more than a little suspicious that a mule deer, shot by a hunter in the Mt. Horeb area during that time, was immediately confiscated by the Department of Natural Resources. Why were the Department and the University not forthcoming with this bit of information? Could these mule deer, infected with CWD by the University be the source of the disease in our native whitetail population? I requested the Committee to inquire with the University as to the nature of the CWD experiments and what happened to all of the animals infected.
The University of Madison Wisconsin rebuttal:<a href="https://news.wisc.edu/archive/cwd/" target="_blank">https://news.wisc.edu/archive/cwd/</a>[h=2]<img src="https://news.wisc.edu/archive/cwd/images/h_bies.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />[/h]&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; May 30, 2003&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In a recent column submitted to news media in&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; his district, State Rep. Garey Bies suggests that the University&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; of Wisconsin-Madison, through its research into prion disease, is&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; possibly responsible for introducing Chronic Wasting Disease into&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Wisconsin's deer herd.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Unfortunately, Rep. Bies was misinformed and&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; his statement is 
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; inaccurate and unsubstantiated. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Since the 1980s, UW-Madison has carried out a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; number of studies into the basic biology of prion diseases, including&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; CWD. Such studies are necessary to understand the nature of these&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; diseases and to devise treatments and methods to protect humans&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; and animals from such diseases.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; All of the experiments were conducted under appropriate,&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; safe and secure conditions, and all of the infectious materials&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; and animals used in these studies were accounted for and disposed&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; of through incineration according to the standard practices in place&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; for the disposal of those types of materials. The use of animals&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; in such work is standard practice.

<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>In his column, Rep. Bies implies that mule deer were involved&nbsp;&nbsp; in UW-Madison prion experiments and he raises suspicions that a mule deer shot&nbsp;&nbsp; near Mount Horeb in 1988 may have escaped from a UW-Madison laboratory environment. 
 That statement does not accurately reflect the research that&nbsp;&nbsp; was conducted, and Rep. Bies' suspicions are unfounded. 
In the research, brain tissue samples from a Colorado mule deer&nbsp;&nbsp; infected with CWD were used to inoculate other species to determine if CWD could&nbsp;&nbsp; jump from one species to another. Results of this research showed the difficulty&nbsp;&nbsp; of transmitting CWD to other species. All materials from those experiments were&nbsp;&nbsp; securely contained and disposed of properly. No live mule deer were used in&nbsp;&nbsp; the UW research or imported to Wisconsin by the University. 
 Rep. Bies implies that the university has not been forthcoming&nbsp;&nbsp; about its work to understand CWD and other prion-related diseases. By its very&nbsp;&nbsp; nature, scientific research is an open and accessible process. The research&nbsp;&nbsp; described above to understand CWD transmission, for example, has been published&nbsp;&nbsp; and is available in the open literature. 
 DNR officials that the university has worked with on this issue&nbsp;&nbsp; have been equally open about the disease and its effects on the deer herd in&nbsp;&nbsp; Wisconsin. 
 If we are to come to grips with the scourge of CWD in our state,&nbsp;&nbsp; scientific research and appropriate management are the best tools at the state's&nbsp;&nbsp; disposal. Any unsubstantiated claims that scientists working to unravel the&nbsp;&nbsp; mysteries of CWD are somehow responsible for its introduction to the state only&nbsp;&nbsp; undermine our efforts to rid Wisconsin of this disease. 
R. Timothy Mulcahy 
&nbsp; associate vice chancellor for research policy/ 
&nbsp; associate dean, biological sciences



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[QUOTE="Fritz the Cat, post: 244297, member: 605"] Everyone is interested in the studies feeding or injecting cwd material to monkeys. There have been many similiar studies with sheep dairy cows etc. Dr. Beth Williams was the lead researcher at government facilities for years where they did nutritional studies on mule deer in Wyoming and Colorado. CWD infected material was sent to many different states to experiment on lab mice and rats. I believe it was 2003 when a Wisconsin Representative made this claim: [LEFT][COLOR=#191919][FONT="Verdana"]State Representative Garey Bies regarding where CWD came from in Wisconsin.: [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#191919][FONT="Verdana"][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#191919][FONT="Verdana"][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#191919][FONT='inherit'] [INDENT]Also regarding Chronic Wasting Disease, I was quite shocked to learn that the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in 1988 inoculated live animals with CWD. One type of animal that was inoculated was mule deer. And I find it more than a little suspicious that a mule deer, shot by a hunter in the Mt. Horeb area during that time, was immediately confiscated by the Department of Natural Resources. Why were the Department and the University not forthcoming with this bit of information? Could these mule deer, infected with CWD by the University be the source of the disease in our native whitetail population? I requested the Committee to inquire with the University as to the nature of the CWD experiments and what happened to all of the animals infected. [/INDENT][/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] The University of Madison Wisconsin rebuttal: [url]https://news.wisc.edu/archive/cwd/[/url] [h=2][IMG]https://news.wisc.edu/archive/cwd/images/h_bies.gif[/IMG][/h][LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]May 30, 2003[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]In a recent column submitted to news media in his district, State Rep. Garey Bies suggests that the University of Wisconsin-Madison, through its research into prion disease, is possibly responsible for introducing Chronic Wasting Disease into Wisconsin's deer herd.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana] Unfortunately, Rep. Bies was misinformed and his statement is inaccurate and unsubstantiated. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]Since the 1980s, UW-Madison has carried out a number of studies into the basic biology of prion diseases, including CWD. Such studies are necessary to understand the nature of these diseases and to devise treatments and methods to protect humans and animals from such diseases.[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman] [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana]All of the experiments were conducted under appropriate, safe and secure conditions, and all of the infectious materials and animals used in these studies were accounted for and disposed of through incineration according to the standard practices in place for the disposal of those types of materials. The use of animals in such work is standard practice. [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT][TABLE="width: 717, align: center"] [TR] [TD="class: bgwhite, width: 547, bgcolor: #FFFFFF"][FONT=Verdana]In his column, Rep. Bies implies that mule deer were involved in UW-Madison prion experiments and he raises suspicions that a mule deer shot near Mount Horeb in 1988 may have escaped from a UW-Madison laboratory environment.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] That statement does not accurately reflect the research that was conducted, and Rep. Bies' suspicions are unfounded. [/FONT] [FONT=Verdana]In the research, brain tissue samples from a Colorado mule deer infected with CWD were used to inoculate other species to determine if CWD could jump from one species to another. Results of this research showed the difficulty of transmitting CWD to other species. All materials from those experiments were securely contained and disposed of properly. No live mule deer were used in the UW research or imported to Wisconsin by the University.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] Rep. Bies implies that the university has not been forthcoming about its work to understand CWD and other prion-related diseases. By its very nature, scientific research is an open and accessible process. The research described above to understand CWD transmission, for example, has been published and is available in the open literature.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] DNR officials that the university has worked with on this issue have been equally open about the disease and its effects on the deer herd in Wisconsin.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana] If we are to come to grips with the scourge of CWD in our state, scientific research and appropriate management are the best tools at the state's disposal. Any unsubstantiated claims that scientists working to unravel the mysteries of CWD are somehow responsible for its introduction to the state only undermine our efforts to rid Wisconsin of this disease.[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana][RIGHT]R. Timothy Mulcahy associate vice chancellor for research policy/ associate dean, biological sciences[/RIGHT][/FONT][RIGHT][/RIGHT][FONT=Verdana][RIGHT] [/RIGHT][/FONT][RIGHT][/RIGHT] [/TD] [TD="class: bgwhite-b, width: 20, bgcolor: #FFFFFF"][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [LEFT][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Verdana] [/FONT][/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]

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