Chronic Wasting Disease — United States
Oregon saw its 1st confirmed case of a fatal and easily spread disease that affects deer and elk earlier this month [November 2017], thanks to a Madras [city of about 6000 in Oregon] hunter.
Following a recent hunting trip to Montana, Madras resident [LR], 46, brought the carcass of a deer that tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a protein disease that infects the brains and nervous systems of deer and other hoofed mammals, to Central Oregon. Tim Schwartz, division lieutenant for
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