The first case of chronic wasting disease has been reported in a Chippewa County deer and confirmed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The deer was a hunter-harvested 1-year-old buck.
Starting next deer season, hunters in south Georgia will have the option to drop off the heads of deer they take to be tested for a fatal and infectious brain-eating ...
The disease — which is 100% fatal — causes a deer's nervous system to shut down until they die, but there's no evidence of the disease spreading to humans.