Grilling the meat substantially boosted detection of the prions, which the authors say may be because heat helps release prions trapped in the tissue.
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The county is in southwestern Indiana, on the border with Illinois and Kentucky, both of which are CWD-positive.
The two adult female elk were found dead in January and early February, respectively, at the Dell Creek feeding ground.
The severely emaciated deer was found dead on private property located more than 10 miles away from any other CWD-positive cases.
The two 2.5-year-old bucks in Cleburne County, located within a quarter-mile of each other, and a 3.5-year-old buck in Baxter were harvested during the hunting season.
Nebraska conducts CWD surveillance in 4 to 7 regions each year, rotating to a different part of the state each season.
Authorities detected the cases in Concordia, St Landry, and Tangipahoa parishes after tracing them back to a CWD-positive deer farm in Jefferson Davis Parish.
One of the two adult bucks was harvested by a hunter, and the other was identified on a deer-breeding farm.
The Fremont County deer was found west of Percival, near the Missouri River, while the Pottawattamie County deer was taken northwest of Avoca.
One of the 2 infected white-tailed bucks was found near Greenfield in Hennepin County; the other was taken near Hawley in Clay County.
The 2.5-year-old buck was found on private land in Lanier County, in the south-central part of the state.
