Here's the best part of that article, in my opinion. It points the finger right at state officials as to why the deer hunt was down so much this year:
<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>Despite the fact that 32 Wisconsin deer had already tested positive for CWD (with 10 more added in mid-October) and that the state was about to launch a Herculean effort to test up to 60,000 more, Kazmierczak was not alone in dismissing the danger. State veterinarian Clarence Siroky, Wisconsin's highest-ranking animal health official, was traveling the state telling hunters, "CWD is like scrapie in sheep [which has never been shown to infect humans]. It's not mad cow disease in deer. There is nothing to fear about CWD, other than its spread within the deer herd." When someone in an audience near Appleton asked Siroky whether he would feed venison to his granddaughter, he answered, "Yes."
Even the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison lent his voice to the "don't worry, keep hunting" chorus. But while all the reassurances were going on in public, in the back rooms of state government, a very different scenario was playing out. State health and safety experts were trying to force the DNR to make volunteers "wear decontamination outfits, moon suits" when they collected deer brain stem samples. "Can you imagine what kind of message that would send, the panic it would cause around the state?" asks Carl A. Batha, DNR wildlife management supervisor. "The paranoia that's gripped the populace seems to have infiltrated the DNR at the highest levels."<hr height=1 noshade id=quote></BLOCKQUOTE id=quote></font id=quote><font face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' size=2 id=quote>
All the time the DNR is telling us to kill everything brown that moves in the "eradication zone", state health officials are telling the DNR employees to wear "moon suits" when taking brain stem samples. THAT'S the problem! "Hey the venison is safe! But better put on your hasmat gear, just in case!"