the infection rate in your " limited study" of 4 animals is 50%. limit your samples more and you could have 100%. Way to use statistical BS. What was in common is just as I said before, the old animals have it, and the young ones don' t.

Reduce the herd size (some) and reduce the age, reduce the positive " tests" for CWD. Kill all the old people, and we can rid the world of alzheimers.

Buckmine
Yes the world is overpopulated with people, and that does cause problems. but the powers that be don' t allow people to remedy these problems. We have disease outbreaks like SARS and AIDS which aren' t so bad (compared to the plague, yellow fever...) , and then we move on, but one day we may well end up with one that is much worse.

That 100? bushel bait pile is just crazy, but what about that farmer that has haystacks out in his field all winter, or that little watering hole out in the middle of the woods, or that wild apple tree I hunted under last fall, or, or? Should we stop all farming, and drain all of the watering holes so the deer can' t congregate? We can' t keep the deer apart, and we can' t rid the world (or wisconsin) of infected animals.

I' m not worried about CWD coming to my state, because I' m sure it is already here, and it is there, and everywhere. So is SARS. Everyone is just buying into all this hype, just like the dreaded West Nile Virus. It' s not that bad.