Monte Carlo simulation of testing requirements for chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance via hunter-harvest in Illinois, USA
Open Access
- 2 September 2026
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Prion
- Vol. 20 (1) , 79-88
Abstract
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an invariably fatal neurodegenerative disease of cervids detected in wild and captive herds in the United States, Canada, Norway, Sweden, and Finland since its disc...Keywords
Funding Information
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (W-146-R)
- Illinois Natural History Survey-Prairie Research Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
- Office of the Vice Chancellor of Research and Innovation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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