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

Try handling different material... for different results.

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.

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

That shows that our deer herds continue to do well.