They kept saying it was spread by Deer carcasses mainly the brain , spinal tissue and Lympt glands . Suspect saliva or other bodily fluids . I also thought it was odd not many getting their Deer tested .I took in a 3.5 year old buck opening morning . It came back negative .
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Out of curriousity what did the AGFC employee tell you what caused it? I wasn't aware there was an answer to that question. And yes they could be spread if a vulture ate an infected deer and flew off some where and pooped (technical term). It can be spread a ton of different ways in the state, including someone killing a deer that is infected and driving home to another county or part of the state and processing the deer and disposing of the carcus there. I wonder how many times this has happened over the last 20+ years. Apparently the prions that are left in the carcus stay in the soil as it decomposes. Then it is there and can be transfered to that areas deer.
I worked (32 hours) the check station in Atkins on opening weekend and we checked about 40 deer the whole weekend. One of the biologists went down the road where the processor is and there was literally a mountain of deer that were being skinned (200+). This processor was just a couple miles down the road from us. It seems to me that most hunters aren't too concerned about it. If they were, I would think that more would have brought their deer in to be checked.
Disclaimer: Please keep in mind that I am a fisheries biologist and not a wildlife biologist nor an expert on this disease. This is just my opinion.
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