Yes, we hunt right across the fence from where CWD was brought into Wyoming, supposedly from Colorado.
Been hunting this area for 35 + years now.

There has never been a case of CWD crossing over to humans, ever.
Husband worked with some of the best known scientist studying this disease for years here in Wyoming.
Oddly they almost all ate their animals without testing or even if they were positive, humm....
We have taken about 3-4 animals over the years that tested positive, ate them all but did not share that meat.

Testing now is showing our areas has lower prevalence on CWD than other areas in the state.
Researchers are finding some deer develop an allele that is resistant to cwd.

Remember the headlines, Zombie Deer? It's part of the plan
You will eat Lab grown meat and bug's and you will enjoy it
Crazy how some of you trapper's that can read nature and her signs
Can't see that this is a fabricated boogie man to help them end hunting
Sorry Swamp, but you are way off base with your fears

In many cases, as when our G&F Dept conducted the five year cwd program, they paid a group of other scientists to conduct the research. And in this case, the results of the study were not what the G&F thought they were going to be - in fact - proved their management efforts had been in conflict with what was really happening.

It is odd to me that many hunters, just because they personally have never seen a deer die of cwd, believe that deer dont die of cwd. And yet they believe a deer biologist who has telemetry collars on hundreds of deer tracking them night and day for years, doesnt know what they are talking about.

Swamp, what's the average wait time on testing? I usually donate a deer to my churches food bank so at the very least I would like to have that deer tested.

If you eat them after they test positive for cwd, why do you bother to test them?

I'm in southwest WI. Crawford county. Just had a deer farm in the county have a positive test. It's been here for years in the wild. I've never had a deer tested and probably won't either. The DNR has drop boxes out that aren't refrigerated so the heads sit there for who knows how long. How accurate is a test on that?

If I shoot a sick looking deer I won't eat it or bring it home. As was stated above it's in the soil so it's never going to be stopped. Guess we all should quit hunting then.

I remember when mad cow disease was in that cow that came from Canada. Did anyone here quit eating beef? Why not?

Plain and simple.

Wildlife scientists have no idea how long prion diseases have been in the wild. Prion disease (CWD) cannot be killed easily and is immune to fire.

It is in the soil and in the plants deer can consume.

There is no telling how many deer have been consumed that were positive.

Best bet is to never consume brain or spinal cord as that is where prions live.

The human equivalent to CWD is CJD. Look it up.

Science doesn't know what it doesn't know.

My hunting club is now in a CWD zone. I usually take my deer to a processor. I hate to pay the packaging cost for meat I can’t use if it later tests positive.

What do you do?

Im not but a county away is. I read enough to make me conserned. I didnt go on my out of state youth hunting last year becust that area was in a zone.

Deer can be infected for 2 years and not show symptoms, fawns can be born with it. We eat 8 to 12 deer a year but im geting less interested in doing so.

It looks like testing droo off spots are not located within an hour of me, and it will take up to 10 weeks to get results back.

So that means I go throught the trouble of processing and packaging, labeling and keeping each deer separate untill test come back. Then if positive figure out how to dispose of it without contaminating my farm. Apparently tossing it in the wood burner wont kill it. So how to get rid of it safety.

So with all that I can say deer hunting just may not continue to be worth the time.

Just becuse there is not a known positive linked to a human yet is not the same as there has not been. Also how long before it shows up. May be fine for years untill we are not.

I plan on having the deer tested and keeping them separated but I subspect that may be more trouble than its worth.

Why can't you use it?

But it is not in plants we eat? No one testing veges for CWD? No telling how many potatoes have been consumed that were positive.

My approach would be to kill them down to as close to zero as possible then start over after a waiting period