CWD

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Lou This disease is much worse than Rabies and the symptons are different. It's easy to identify a CWD infected animal during the late stages but during the first 3 or 4 years they act just like every other deer or elk out there. If you want your animals tested the state has programs thru labs for around 20 dollars. You might not think this is a serious problem but you and everybody in America will have to deal with it sooner or later. The disease itself is a Transmittable spongiform encephalopathy which basically transforms the brain into what looks like a spong. The only way to test it is to kill the animal and take a sample or cut the tonsils out but this method is impractical and expensive. CWD is thought to derive from Scrapie (sheeps version) or what most people know about mad cows disease which killed hundreds of people and thousands of animals. If you lived in south central Wisconsin then you would know about the 50,000 deer killed to slow the spread of CWD. I'm not advocating anybody to stop hunting but to inform and educate people to protect themselves.
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