Targeted culling of deer controls disease with little effect on hunting
Monday, October 21, 2013 - 12:31
in Biology & Nature
Chronic wasting disease, the deer-equivalent of mad cow disease, has crept across the U.S. landscape from west to east. It appeared first in captive mule deer in Colorado in the late 1960s. By 1981, it had escaped to the wild. It reached the Midwest by 2002. Little is known about its potential to infect humans.