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Old 09-17-2002 | 11:50 AM
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timbercruiser
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Default RE: CWD

Its the unknowns about CWD that make me worry. How exactly is it transmitted hasn't been 100% established. The states have curtailed the moving of deer across state lines and are trying to keep up with the pen deer populations, but the unknowns of possible transmission ways are still ongoing. Other states that allowed baiting have changed the laws. I am talking about the theories of urine sold as sex attractants possibly being a transmission way. The possibility of deer heads being brought hundreds of miles to local taxidermy shops where the antlers are sawed off exposing and spreading the brain tissue which is where the prione protein is concentrated. Lots of unknowns about this stuff. Deer and Deer Hunting magazine and the Quality Deer Management Association literature have had some good articles about CWD.

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