ArticleNature communications2020
Hunting strategies to increase detection of chronic wasting disease in cervids.
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- A tale of two management programs: Insights from a state-line wildlife disease outbreak.PNAS nexus · 2025Article
- Harvest and decimation affect genetic drift and the effective population size in wild reindeer.Evolutionary applications · 2024Article
- PMCA screening of retropharyngeal lymph nodes in white-tailed deer and comparisons with ELISA and IHC.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Monitoring of chronic wasting disease (CWD) (IV).EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2023Article
- Evaluating the ability of a locally focused culling program in removing chronic wasting disease infected free-ranging white-tailed deer in Illinois, USA, 2003-2020.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- Chronic wasting disease in Europe: new strains on the horizon.Acta veterinaria Scandinavica · 2021Review
- Review on PRNP genetics and susceptibility to chronic wasting disease of Cervidae.Veterinary research · 2021Review
- Harvest strategies for the elimination of low prevalence wildlife diseases.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Sami Reindeer Herding: The Socio-Political Dimension of an Epizootic in an Indigenous Context.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Real-Time Quaking-Induced Conversion, ELISA, and Immunohistochemistry for Chronic Wasting Disease Diagnosis.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2021Article
- Getting in Front of Chronic Wasting Disease: Model-Informed Proactive Approach for Managing an Emerging Wildlife Disease.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2020Article
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Abstract
The successful mitigation of emerging wildlife diseases may involve controversial host culling. For livestock, 'preemptive host culling' is an accepted practice involving the removal of herds with known contact to infected populations. When applied to wildlife, this proactive approach comes in conflict with biodiversity conservation goals. Here, we present an alternative approach of 'proactive hunting surveillance' with the aim of early disease detection that simultaneously avoids undesirable population decline by targeting demographic groups with (1) a higher likelihood of being infected and (2) a lower reproductive value. We applied this harvesting principle to populations of reindeer to substantiate freedom of chronic wasting disease (CWD) infection. Proactive hunting surveillance reached 99% probability of freedom from infection (<4 reindeer infected) within 3-5 years, in comparison to ~10 years using ordinary harvest surveillance. However, implementation uncertainties linked to social issues appear challenging also with this kind of host culling.
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