Potential CWD Vaccine on the horizon

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Supporting chronic wasting disease vaccine research

Research into the development of an oral vaccine for chronic wasting disease (CWD) will support efforts to control the spread of this wildlife disease.

https://www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?xID=8176782698073-FEBC-CF42-D2B0B15E48CB5EEE
 
Is it pfizer or moderna? How many boosters? Get the shot and you won't get shot. Can we shame the unvaxxed deer?
 
Desjard said:
Is it pfizer or moderna? How many boosters? Get the shot and you won't get shot. Can we shame the unvaxxed deer?
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Thanks for confirming. There is indeed One In Every Crowd.
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I wonder if it’s an actual vaccine, or the modern version of ‘vaccine’ that doesn’t actually prevent disease. Like the cold vaccine or covid vaccine.
 
This is encouraging but they have a lot of work to do before they can determine if it will be effective. CWD has been described as "an epidemic in slow motion." This is an accurate description. It takes decades for it to get established in an area, but once it gains prevalence it is devastating. Why are Mule deer more suceptable than white-tailed deer and elk? It seems like most mule deer don't live past 5 -6 years of age in areas of high infection rate.

It appears from the comments that some of you don't believe vaccines are effective or worthwhile. Our food would be a LOT more expensive if it were not for organizations such as VIDO ( The Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization) in Saskatoon. Their work in developing effective animal vaccines has been a nothing short of amazing. I am hopeful that there will also be an effective vaccine against CWD.
 
Good to have a vaccine for this disease, but how do you administer it in any kind of effective way? Oral? Great, we put it in their food, but that only gets to deer that visit a feeder with the vaccine in it. And how do we control the dosage? We may have solved one problem, but the larger problem of distribution in any meaningful way is a much larger problem.

I’m not denigrating the work done by VIDO, but treating domestic animals is a lot different than treating wild animals. Calculating dosage requirements by weight, or age is a lot easier with a heifer in a chute, or a turkey in a cage.
 
Manitoba had a cure for its 1st confirmed case. Cull them from a helicopter miles around where the case was discovered..
500 .223 rounds and a helicopter probably cheaper than a dose
 
The headline and some of the comments are misleading. The announcement is about encouraging research via agreement to cooperate and some funding to develop a possible vaccine. An effective CWD vaccine is not "on the Horizon" but is worth developing if it is possible to do so. The naysayers are already attacking the possibilities. No wonder scientific progress is so difficult! Headlines and internet banter aren't very informative. I hope this agreement to fund research produces better understanding of the disease and perhaps even leads to an effective vaccine. It's much better than doing nothing.
 
KePet said:
Good to have a vaccine for this disease, but how do you administer it in any kind of effective way? Oral? Great, we put it in their food, but that only gets to deer that visit a feeder with the vaccine in it. And how do we control the dosage? We may have solved one problem, but the larger problem of distribution in any meaningful way is a much larger problem.

I’m not denigrating the work done by VIDO, but treating domestic animals is a lot different than treating wild animals. Calculating dosage requirements by weight, or age is a lot easier with a heifer in a chute, or a turkey in a cage.
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They provide the rabies vaccine to racoons/skunks/foxes in the east by air-dropping laced bait. Just gotta get creative...

https://globalnews.ca/news/5782966/rabies-vaccine-bait-drop-southern-ontario/

Smcx said:
I wonder if it’s an actual vaccine, or the modern version of ‘vaccine’ that doesn’t actually prevent disease. Like the cold vaccine or covid vaccine.
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The MMR vaccine is only ~88% effective at preventing Mumps, so should we stop giving it to our kids???

Two doses of the polio vaccine only provide ~90% protection. You need 4 doses to be considered fully vaccinated according to the CDC.

This idea that a vaccine (and especially a single dose of a vaccine) prevents all infections, all spread, all traces of the disease, is total hogwash and proves just how misinformed so many people are about not just the covid vaccine, but vaccines in general.
 
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Longwalker said:
The headline and some of the comments are misleading. The announcement is about encouraging research via agreement to cooperate and some funding to develop a possible vaccine. An effective CWD vaccine is not "on the Horizon" but is worth developing if it is possible to do so. The naysayers are already attacking the possibilities. No wonder scientific progress is so difficult! Headlines and internet banter aren't very informative. I hope this agreement to fund research produces better understanding of the disease and perhaps even leads to an effective vaccine. It's much better than doing nothing.
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This isn't even about naysayers anymore, it's about straight up tribalism and being disingenuine. The slough of comments on Sask hunting groups about how this is a "Liberal idea" and that vaccines are conspiracy theories is completely astounding.

People have gone mad with COVID and the scientific/medical community is now somehow the enemy?!?!

This 1.3mil funding is great and we can hopefully see an end to, or control the spread of, CWD on the horizon. I just can't believe how dumb we've become.
 
scruffee said:
This isn't even about naysayers anymore, it's about straight up tribalism and being disingenuine. The slough of comments on Sask hunting groups about how this is a "Liberal idea" and that vaccines are conspiracy theories is completely astounding.

People have gone mad with COVID and the scientific/medical community is now somehow the enemy?!?!

This 1.3mil funding is great and we can hopefully see an end to, or control the spread of, CWD on the horizon. I just can't believe how dumb we've become.
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What really blows my mind is during Trump's presidency the expediency at which the Covid vaccine was developed was considered a great success of Trumps, and something that ONLY happened because of Trump, but the moment he lost the election that same expediency turned into meaning the vaccine is untested and unsafe. I really hate that science has become so politicized.
 
Once a successful vaccine is developed, additional research is required to investigate how to provide an oral form that wild deer could consume.
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They have some funding, so effectively at Day 1. A long, long, long way to go.
 
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