Risk behaviors in a rural community with a known point-source exposure to chronic wasting disease

• Published in: Environmental health Vol. 7; no. 1; p. 31
• Main Authors: Garruto, Ralph M, Reiber, Chris, Alfonso, Marta P, Gastrich, Heidi, Needham, Kelsey, Sunderman, Sarah, Walker, Sarah, Weeks, Jennifer, Derosa, Nicholas, Faisst, Eric, Dunn, John, Fanelli, Kenneth, Shilkret, Kenneth
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 24.06.2008; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Animal models in research; Animals; Cervidae; Child; Cohort Studies; Deer - microbiology; Demographic aspects; Diagnosis; Environmental Exposure; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; New York - epidemiology; Physiological aspects; Prospective Studies; Risk factors; Risk-Taking; Rural Population; Surveys and Questionnaires; Wasting Disease, Chronic - epidemiology; Wasting Disease, Chronic - etiology; Wasting syndrome; New York; United States; ANW, USA, New York; Korea, Rep

The emergence and continuing spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in cervids has now reached 14 U.S. states, two Canadian provinces, and South Korea, producing a potential for transmission of CWD prions to humans and other animals globally. In 2005, CWD spread for the first time from the Midwest...