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About a year ago a man came to Allan Houston, associate professor at the Ames AgResearch and Education Center. The man wanted to join the Ames Deer Hunting Club. According

A wildlife scientist explains chronic wasting disease, the fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.

Chronic wasting disease is contagious and relentless. There is no cure, no way to test living animals, and once infections are introduced into wild populations, there is no realistic way to stop them from spreading.

Chronic wasting disease, a deadly neurological infectious disease that affects deer, elk and moose, is spreading across North America. Most recently

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