From the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission The blue dots
represent locations of deer harvested during the November 2008
firearm season that tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
-- Twenty-two deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease
(CWD) in November, according to the Nebraska Game and Parks
Commission. More than 4,900 deer were tested. The positive tests
do not represent an expansion of the disease in Nebraska. CWD is
a disease that can affect deer and elk and is always fatal to
the affected animal. Humans have never been known to contract
CWD. The Commission tested deer harvested by hunters during the
November firearm season. "A total of 22 deer tested positive for
the disease, and all of the positive tests were from deer
harvested within the endemic area, with no new expansion of the
disease detected," said Bruce Trindle, wildlife disease
specialist in the Commission's Norfolk district office. "The
prevalence of CWD in deer tested over the past three years has
been less than 1 percent, and