Game animals

Sachs, R. 1967 Liveweights and body measurements of Serengeti game animals. East African Wildlife Journal 5 24-36. 

Lead has been identified in a variety of environmental media (air, surface water, groundwater, leachate, soil, sediment, fish and game animals) collected at 1,026 of the 1,467 current and former NPL hazardous waste sites (HazDat 1998). Lead is the most frequently found metal at hazardous waste sites (Reed et al. 1995). 

Reindeer meat, game, animal meat, fish, 1500 Bq (40,500 pCi) cesium-137/kg FW 15... 

There may be a potential for contamination of fish and wildlife in the vicinity of hazardous waste sites. Endrin was detected in fish samples collected at 4 of the 102 NPL sites and in game animal samples collected at one of the 102 NPL sites where endrin has been detected in some environmental medium however, levels of contamination were not reported (HazDat 1996). 

Forest based farmers practice slash-and-burn agriculture, clearing a new field from the forest, cropping it for 2-5 years and then leaving it fallow for 5-20 years. Fallow periods decrease due to growing population density. Forest products and game animals are the main source of cash income. Physical isolation and lack of roads and markets obstruct development. 

At the beginning of the 20th century, when the populations of many species of game animals were at an all-time low, many sportsmen who loved to hunt realized they must accept... 

The price of each gun includes the gun, sturdy carr5dng case, enough material to make 100 three-inch darts, and an instruction sheet NOTE Check local fish and game laws before taking game animals. 

The winter food of game animals (bark, twigs, shoots, bushes) contains only 1 to 4.5gKkg DM the potassium amounts thus delivered do not cover the normative... 

Haffelder, 1995). Indeed, this heterogeneity is still apparent at 10 years after the Chernobyl accident, as demonstrated by the radiocesium contamination of muscle tissues in game animals living in low- and highly contaminated areas of Bavaria (Table 1-5.1) (Hecht, 2004). 

The radiocesium is lost from the cycle only by its own radioactive decay which, in the case of Cs is very slow due to the long physical half-life of this isotope (30.1 years). Thus, the vegetation in forest ecosystems will contain radiocesium for a long time, and this will result in radiocesium contamination of game animals living in cesium-contaminated forests. Indeed, this... 

However, it appears that not all TSEs are transferable to all species. Scrapie disease in sheep is not known to be infectious in humans, although it seems infectious in cows. Thus, there appear to be species barriers to infectivity. The potential infectivity of CWD disease to humans is not known, although testing of game animals taken by hunters in the CWD-infected areas has been encouraged. The mechanism for the horizontal spread of CWD in deer and elk is without explanation, and it is not clear if transmission to humans is possible, or what the disease would look like if it were transmitted (Xie et al., 2006). It is intriguing to speculate that prion infectivity could leap from one species to another nonpermissible species by way of a permissible intermediate, possibly as evidenced by sheep scrapie to mad cow to human vCJD. 

The potential for presymptomatic detection of prions in the blood of infected individuals has profound importance for humans exposed, or potentially exposed, to contaminated food. Saa et al. (2006) show that the scrapie disease prion (PrFO can be detected biochemically in the blood of scrapie-infected hamsters during most of the presymptomatic phase of the disease. Infectious prions have also been found in the blood of CWD-positive deer (Mathiason et al., 2006). Because the human population may have been seeded with vCJD disease as a result of the BSE epidemic, the potential to detect prions in presymptomatic individuals would seem to have profound importance for human blood donation and organ transplantation, as well as for the screening of farm and game animals. The potential for development of immunity (Peretz et al., 2001 Heppner et al., 2001 Pankiewicz et al., 2006) or of effective vaccines (Sadowski and Wisniewski, 2004) may open the door to effective management or cure, which are at present out of reach. 

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