Chronic Wasting Disease -- United States
Fourteen tissue samples from wild Iowa deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease [CWD], bringing the total deer testing positive for CWD in Iowa to 44. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is waiting for results on follow-up tests for 2 suspect samples that could raise the total positives for the year [2018] to 16. The deer tissue was collected primarily during the fall from hunter-harvested and road-killed deer.
The way that this disease moves, these results were not unexpected,
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6258100&promed&0
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