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State veterinarian says Idaho has limited captive chronic wasting disease detections but will keep testing and management plans
Summary
Officials reported two recent CWD detections at captive facilities in Jefferson and Madison counties, described quarantine and management options that let producers move animals between commonly owned facilities, and noted the challenge of developing live tests.
Dr. Scott Lively updated the House Agriculture Affairs Committee on chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance in captive cervid facilities and recent detections in eastern Idaho.
Lively said Idaho's domestic cervid surveillance program had not identified captive CWD until two months prior to the briefing; since then the agency has confirmed two recent captive-facility cases, one in Jefferson County and one in Madison County. He told the committee the first Madison County facility’s animals arrived from an origin farm in Alberta that later reported a positive.
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