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Biologists Plan Deer Hunt to Find Extent of Chronic Wasting
http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/2231386.html
State biologists plan to conduct a special deer hunt to measure the spread of chronic wasting disease in Kansas.
Chronic wasting disease infects deer, elk and moose, destroying their brains and usually resulting in death. Experts don't believe it can be transmitted to humans or livestock.
The first Kansas case was confirmed this week in the brain tissue of a white-tail doe shot by a hunter near St. Francis, in the far northwest, during last month's deer season.
Wildlife officials are about halfway through testing nearly 2,000 brain tissue samples from deer taken statewide during the hunt.
No other suspected cases of chronic wasting disease have turned up. But the Department of Wildlife and Parks will have to kill enough white-tails and mule deer to get a statistically reliable sample.
Officials are deciding when and where the department's special hunt will take place.
http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/2231386.html
State biologists plan to conduct a special deer hunt to measure the spread of chronic wasting disease in Kansas.
Chronic wasting disease infects deer, elk and moose, destroying their brains and usually resulting in death. Experts don't believe it can be transmitted to humans or livestock.
The first Kansas case was confirmed this week in the brain tissue of a white-tail doe shot by a hunter near St. Francis, in the far northwest, during last month's deer season.
Wildlife officials are about halfway through testing nearly 2,000 brain tissue samples from deer taken statewide during the hunt.
No other suspected cases of chronic wasting disease have turned up. But the Department of Wildlife and Parks will have to kill enough white-tails and mule deer to get a statistically reliable sample.
Officials are deciding when and where the department's special hunt will take place.
