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Agency warns baiting increases CWD transmission risk; commission to hear baiting rule tomorrow
Summary
Assistant chief Mark McBride told commissioners that baiting concentrates deer, increasing direct and environmental transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), and recommended maintaining bans inside the CWD management zone; the agency emphasized the complexity of aligning baiting rules outside the zone and flagged potential impacts on hunter sampling.
Mark McBride, assistant chief of game species, gave a technical presentation to the commission on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), baiting, and the agency’s CWD management zone.
McBride reviewed prion biology and transmission pathways, emphasizing that CWD is caused by a misfolded protein (a prion), is fatal, has no vaccine or treatment, and can persist in the environment for decades. He explained that baiting concentrates animals and raises both direct contact…
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