The findings don’t confirm that the fatal disease is a threat to people but do offer important clues to what infection might look like in humans.
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The bats' range is expanding northward, while CWD is creeping southward, creating a worrisome overlap.
In the previous hunting season, three parks near Gettysburg National Military Park reported their first cases.
He was a section chief at the Laboratory of Persistent Viral Diseases at the National Institute of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton, Montana.
The infected deer was harvested by a hunter in Clement Township.
The Tennessee Fish and Wildlife Commission will meet in March to finalize any deer-management changes prompted by the discovery.
The infected buck was taken by a hunter in the Richard K. Yancey Wildlife Management Area.
The county's deer baiting and feeding ban will be extended for another 3 years as a result, officials say.
Grangeville is in northwest Idaho, in the foothills of the Bitterroot Mountains.
Dickson County is in the north-central part of Tennessee, and Williamson County is in the central part of the state, just south of Nashville.
The infections were reported by Arkansas, Wisconsin, and Manitoba, Canada.
