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 disease was found in a targeted male mule deer near Rock Springs in the west central part of the state.
The white-tailed deer was found near Optima, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, after a Texas County landowner told officials it had been behaving abnormally.
Wisconsin's latest case is from another deer farm, and the positive finding in Texas marks the first from Bexar County.
The research suggests that ticks can ingest and excrete CWD prions.
The hunter from Louisville legally harvested the 8-point buck in Wisconsin, then brought the intact head into Kentucky for taxidermy, which violates Kentucky law.
This is the eleventh CWD-affected deer farm in the state over the past 15 years.
The 11 new cases raise the state's total since the virus was first detected early last year to 12.
The wild deer—a 3-year-old doe —tested positive in the town of Nepeuskun.
CWD has been confirmed at deer-breeding facilities in Hamilton and Frio counties.
The detections span locations in three counties, with cases in two identified through postmortem testing.
