Compost is decaying plant and/or animal matter broken down by fungi and/or bacteria and is high in fulvic acids and nutrients. When compost is fully decomposed it becomes humus. Rich soil is made up of sand, silt, clay and organic matter (compost) in various stages of decomposition.
This document establishes a recommended minimum standard for. testing and a uniform process of disease risk assessment to helpprevent the spread of. cervid diseases such as chronic wasting disease (CWD), bovine tuberculosis (TB), and. brucellosis when wild cervids are captured for interstate movement and release.
Possible explanations of the origin of CWD include the spontaneous conversion of normal cervid prion protein (PrP) into abnormal form of PrP (PrPSc) that is transmissible to other wapiti and deer (Odocoileus spp.), or the transmission of prions causing diseases in other species to cervids.