Deer don't have to look sick—and many do not initially—to be infected with the always-fatal Chronic Wasting Disease. This mule deer buck in Colorado is infected with CWD and doomed to die.  It points to two worries; first, disease experts believe CWD is probably in many places where people don't think it is; and second, hunters could be eating CWD-infected animals without realizing it.  Photo courtesy Dr. Mike Miller, CWD expert and senior veterinarian with the Colorado State University Diagnostic Lab in Fort Collins
Deer don't have to look sick—and many do not initially—to be infected with the always-fatal Chronic Wasting Disease. This mule deer buck in Colorado is infected with CWD and doomed to die. It points to two worries; first, disease experts believe CWD is probably in many places where people don't think it is; and second, hunters could be eating CWD-infected animals without realizing it. Photo courtesy Dr. Mike Miller, CWD expert and senior veterinarian with the Colorado State University Diagnostic Lab in Fort Collins