Acknowledgements

Editorial Overview:
National Wildlife Health Center (NWHC)

Associate Editors:
Debra C Bourne (WIN), F Joshua Dein (NWHC) and Suzanne I Boardman (WIN)

The purpose of this volume is to provide information on the investigation, epidemiology and control of Chronic Wasting Disease.

We wish to thank Iain Boardman, Aidan Dixon, Richenda Haizelden, Alastair Smyth and Bob Sowton for their support and encouragement and guidance.

We have received a great deal of support for the development of this difficult module and particularly wish to thank the following for their assistance with variously providing direction, electronic materials, peer review and helping us to tread through the mine-fields of a highly political diseases:

• Chris Brand (National Wildlife Health Center)

• Christine Bunck (National Wildlife Health Center)

• Lynn Creekmore (National Wildlife Research Center, USDA Wildlife Services)

• Ed Hoover (Colorado State University)

• Terry Kreeger (Wyoming Game and Fish)

• Julie Langenberg and Robert Rolley  (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources)

• Ian McConnell (Cambridge University Veterinary School)

• Gary Miller, Dr Mike Miller and Dr Laurie Baeten (Colorado Division of Wildlife)

• Bruce Morrison (Nebraska Game and Parks)

• Michael Samuel, John Cary and Damien Joly (University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dept. of Wildlife Ecology)

• Kathy Wesenberg (National Wildlife Health Center)

• Beth Williams (University of Wyoming, Wyoming State Veterinary Laboratory)

• Scott Wright (National Wildlife Health Center)

We are grateful for video images digitally prepared by Tosia Priebe and provided by Dr Terry Kreeger (Wyoming Fish and Game), the National Wildlife Health Center, and Dr Laurie Baeten (Colorado Division of Wildlife)