Two things in the story stick out to me, One the hunter said that he would pay to have the elk tested for CWD, but, it's at that point, it was too late to have that done. Two, he stated that the CDOW had "cleared" his elk of CWD which was impossible since no tests had been done for CWD.

With that said, since it's not been found that an animal that HAS CWD can cause harm to humans that eat the meat, and since apparently he only had the skull plate, with no brains and spinal tissue, than what's the risk ofspreading the disease?