Deer Being Tested In Neighboring Missouri
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Missouri`s Conservation
Department is asking deer hunters in 30 counties to take part in
the second year of testing for chronic wasting disease.
Like last year, the department wants samples from 200 deer in
each of the counties. Participation is voluntary.
Last year`s tests of more than six-thousand Missouri deer found
no cases of chronic wasting disease, a neurological ailment in a
family of diseases that includes scrapies in sheep and mad cow
disease cattle. Deer that contract chronic wasting disease die
within two years.
Eric Kurzejeski, resource science supervisor for the
Conservation Department, says the agency still has no indication
that the disease is present in Missouri but is taking no chances.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
