Wichita
Regulators find no more chronic-wasting disease
More than a month after the first confirmed case of chronic- wasting disease in Kansas, regulators have no indication the illness has spread to other elk or deer herds, Kansas Livestock Commissioner George Teagarden said Thursday.
He issued an emergency order requiring all elk or deer brought into Kansas to be part of a state monitoring program.
Four Kansas producers imported elk from an infected Colorado elk herd. The state tested all 12 of those animals, finding only one which tested positive, Teagarden said. Because all had been exposed, all were destroyed, he said.
Chronic wasting disease is a neurological ailment in a family of diseases that include scrapies in sheep, mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.
Missouri
Higher education faces budget woes statewide
Missouri's public higher education institutions are facing similar budgetary troubles experienced by their counterparts in Kansas.
Democratic Gov. Bob Holden this week proposed a $19 billion budget, nearly $300,000 smaller than last year's plan. His plan included a 10 percent reduction in funding to state colleges and universities a $97.6 million hit.
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