1. What is Chronic wasting disease and how does it affect deer?

2. What is it? Chronic wasting disease is a contagious, neurological disease. Currently, only deer, elk, and moose are susceptible to CWD

3. When and where did CWD start? CWD started in 1967 with infected mule deer on a breeding farm in Colorado.

4. Affects of CWD on deer, moose, and elk. Chronic wasting disease victims are usually easy to spot from the affects it has on them. When an infected deer, elk or moose has CWD, they wont act normal, have poor body conditions, looking sick and lethargic. CWD also often leads to death.

5. How does Chronic Wasting Disease spread? There may be other ways, maybe these ways aren’t accurate. But currently, these are the only ways found that the disease could be spread throughout the animals. Contact with Saliva FecesUrine

6. Example of how CWD spreads

7. How does CWD affect hunters? Hunters can be greatly affected by CWD. If the deer have the disease in their area, hunters might not be able to hunt, or if they do they have to be careful which deer they harvest. Only getting deer that look healthy and than sending in a sample to get it tested for CWD before they can eat the meat. It is just a big hassle for hunters, causing them to move to other areas to hunt for deer that aren't carrying around the disease.

8. Where Chronic Wasting Disease is currently.

9. Some precautions to take especially if you’re a hunter. Make sure to check and see if your area has infected deer before you hunt. Although it wont KILL you, you don’t want to eat or even really come in contact with a CWD infected deer or nevertheless its meat. So, when your out hunting, avoid harvesting sick looking or abnormal behaving deer. These are signs that it could possibly have the disease.

10. How to tell if a deer has CWD if you spot an abnormal looking deer You rarely every see the affects of CWD on a deer younger than 18 months. But any older than that and the affects are stronger and more easy to spot. How to tell if a deer has Chronic Wasting Disease:

11. Abnormal behavior Staggered or wide stance and posture Drooling or droopy ears Physical discrepancies such as weight decrease or a lethargic looking behavior.

12. What do you do if you see an infected deer or one that looks like it is. Don’t disturb, harass, or dispatch it, find the exact location and call the nearest game commission office.

13. What not to eat when a deer is infected with CWD.