If I were to eat venison I wouldn't feel comfortable eating venison from areas where chronic wasting disease is endemic.

This shows muscle contains infected material. Anybody who may be handling or eating infected deer may be inadvertently exposed.

There are a lot of unknowns about these diseases, and CWD is probably the most enigmatic.

What I don't want to do is be an alarmist. What I wanted to do with this paper is to address some obvious concerns, and I wanted to do it scientifically.

We have received reports that the disease is fast spreading to other farms across the state.

The collapse was really a function of European disease being introduced. The story that's been told about these populations going crazy and creating their own demise may just be simply an artifact of [Christian] missionaries telling stories.