Uhhh yes! If the prions are found IN the deer ANYWHERE then it is infected. They just haven't reached the brain yet. If it's only in the nodes then they haven't progressed to the brain. They wouldn't be showing signs. Pretty simplistic to understand even for a remedial reader. You were suggesting that the deer found to only be carrying in the nodes were just carriers and that it was genetically based. Which is 100% incorrect. Keep backpeddeling there BigTime1. The educated are watching and having a good laugh from your ignorance