纽约州野鹿确诊慢性消耗病，系2005年以来首例野生鹿病例
纽约州利文斯顿县斯帕塔镇发现该州自2005年以来首例野生鹿慢性消耗病病例，纽约州环境保护厅11月6日宣布了这一检测结果。患病鹿是一头成年雌性白尾鹿，在利文斯顿县南部斯帕塔镇被捕获，样本纳入环境保护厅全州年度野生鹿监测计划，由康奈尔大学纽约州兽医诊断实验室检测并复核确认，美国农业部国家兽医服务实验室正在做进一步检测。慢性消耗病是一种始终致命的传染病，会侵害鹿、驼鹿和马鹿的大脑与中枢神经系统。环境保护厅表示，由于弓箭狩猎季正在进行、常规火器季本月晚些时候才开始，部门将首先依靠猎人送检的样本来确定疫情的范围和流行程度，再决定进一步的采样与管控措施。收集站定于11月12日投入使用，供管控区内成功猎获野鹿的猎人送交样本检测。
（来源：纽约州环境保护厅）
Chronic Wasting Disease Found in New York Wild Deer, First Wild Case Since 2005
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced on November 6 that a wild deer harvested in the town of Sparta, in southern Livingston County, has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the first such case in a wild deer in New York State since 2005. The positive sample came from an adult female white-tailed deer collected through DEC's statewide annual surveillance programme; it was tested and retested at the New York State Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Cornell University, with further testing under way at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary Services Laboratories.
Chronic wasting disease is an always-fatal transmissible disease that attacks the brain and central nervous system of deer, moose and elk. The discovery triggers New York's CWD Response Plan, jointly developed by DEC and the state Department of Agriculture and Markets. DEC is establishing a containment area covering the towns of Conesus, Groveland, North Dansville, Sparta, Springwater and West Sparta, and all deer harvested in those towns must be submitted for testing, with sample collection beginning November 12. DEC said there is no evidence the disease is linked to illness in humans or livestock.
(Source: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation)
来源：纽约州环境保护厅
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图片来源：图：白尾鹿。作者：Paul Danese，CC BY-SA 4.0，取自 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: A white-tailed deer. By Paul Danese. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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