Chronic wasting disease , as it is otherwise known, is a contagious neurological condition which kills virtually every animal it infects and is spreading rapidly in deer populations across the US.
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An incurable disease found in deer, elk, and moose is spreading across Alberta, according to new provincial surveillance results and certain populations have reached a 23 per cent positivity rate.