Chronic Wasting Disease
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The guiding principles of CWD research activities being conducted by the USGS-Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit are to:
1) improve our scientific knowledge of CWD in free-ranging deer, and
2) develop research to facilitate and refine CWD management actions.
Our research objectives are aimed at providing recommendations and direction for chronic wasting disease management through an integrated approach to understanding the epidemiology and transmission of CWD in white-tailed deer, the landscape patterns associated with CWD distribution and spread, potential CWD transmission into other wildlife species, and evaluation of CWD surveillance and management actions.
USGS-Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit