Talk about poop...MO has no confirmed cases of CWD and we have had a testing program in place. Also, I doubt very seriously that you have seen ANY deer with CWD, anywhere, much less in MO. You mentioned earlier about CWD being a midwest and southern deer thing...but yet, the disease was first noted in the west.

Make no mistake, everything that is "known" about CWD is simply theoretical. There are no absolutes with the disease, period.It is suspected to be transmitted by body fluids, and so it is suspected that baiting will help spread the disease.

Mythoughts on the disease are: The disease often is said to be100% fatal, but there is noproof to that.It cannot be said with certainty that all wild deer thatget the disease die from the disease, because each wild deer that has it is not known, nor tracked. Who is to say that a deer couldn't have "gotten over" the disease? Certainly, IMO,given the average lifespan of all deer, it is likely that manydeer carrying the disease die of "natural" causes first (hunters, predators, cars, etc). And, last and most important, IMO, this disease is likely not a new disease but rather one that has always been present in the nation's herd. ie - when you look for the disease, you will find the disease, sooner or later. No doubt about it, many of the leading deer bio's will tell youthat CWD was/is a media hyped disease led by a DNR that made some rash decisions.