A check of the stats has always shown me that the elk actually effected by cwd isabout 1.2% of the elk harvested in Colorado. Something like 12 elk tested positive out of 966 tested. Colorado DOW will give you another tag if yours test positive. They have backed off the last few years on the manditory testing for cwd units, which is nice since they have not found anyreal threat to us eating an infected elk. We hunt in a cwd unit and have found nothing but healthy animals so far. Just a slight twitch over one eye aftereating that bull we shot last year! No big deal