Maine tested 831 deer from all WMD' s this year along with all other new england states to answer whoever asked.We have a small deer herd with only 25-35,000 deer killed per year.No it can' t be stopped or contained at this point and until they come up with a cure and a way to treat wild deer herds it will continue to spread slowly but surely.As deer wander back into infected areas after all are killed out they will reinfect and it will start up again.Killing lots of deer will slow it down in its spread and Wisc. is to be commended for using this approach but it will not remove it or contain it,only SLOW it.I repeat in all these years what state or province has successfully eliminated CWD from its woods?And if this occured how would they prevent deer from adjoining states from crossing invisible borders and reinfecting their area?And how do they get around the three+ year recontamination time frame?They would have to remain deerless for a long time.Sad but true this is all just slowdown tactics in place while we wait for science to come up with some type of treatment measures.In Wisc. unpoliced captive deer herds will probably turn out to be the root cause of their CWD outbreak.Barring a large multi-state jump we here in the east have some time but it will eventually make its way here at some point without a treatment breakthru.On a good note almost all states are closing their borders to interstate deer and elk movement and thats a GOOD thing.

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