Tim: didn't mean to pick on you, but we do need to keep the facts correct on CWD since it has a high "panic" and "repeat" factor, though, it aint as bad as the wildlife people would like to say.
What have you heard on Doxicycline or Tetracycline derivitive testing? They should be using heavy doses to test the stuff, cause it should suppress the agent allowing natural immunity to kick in and flush the agent eventually (I hope).
Further if that does work, then I think a good blood test is not far behind. Just isolate the white cells and one should be able to culture Spiros in a diseased animal, or perhaps using blood serum, define an antibody from the critters that survive CWD after the tetra treatment.
What have you heard on Doxicycline or Tetracycline derivitive testing? They should be using heavy doses to test the stuff, cause it should suppress the agent allowing natural immunity to kick in and flush the agent eventually (I hope).
Further if that does work, then I think a good blood test is not far behind. Just isolate the white cells and one should be able to culture Spiros in a diseased animal, or perhaps using blood serum, define an antibody from the critters that survive CWD after the tetra treatment.