Chronic wasting disease in wild deer herd

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Appearance of chronic wasting disease in wild deer herd to impact hunters

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has tested more than 40,000 deer for chronic wasting disease since 1998.
It's been found in just more than a dozen animals in the wild, all since 2013.

The always-fatal ailment has been found in several places across the state. Pennsylvania Game Commission officials want to confine it to those locations.
To do so, it has created three “disease management areas” or containment zones.
A map outlining it is on page 39 of this year's hunting digest.

Under the new rules, that hunter will have to take the deer to a butcher within the disease area so as to avoid moving “high risk” parts — brains, spinal columns, lymph nodes and spleens — and potentially spreading the disease. If he wants to get the deer mounted, he'll have to choose a taxidermist within the disease area.

The commission is maintaining a list of processors and taxidermists on its website.

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