What concerns me the most about CWD is the fact that diseases caused by prions have a nasty habit of mutating to cross species boundaries. The disease is in the same family as Mad Cow disease which does affect humans and it is always fatal and an ugly death. We won't know if the disease has mutated and crossed the species boundary until someone contracts the disease and dies. We in PA have areas where CWD has been found where there are special regulations concerning removing deer from these areas as well as bringing a deer carcass back from another state that has CWD. Right now there are 24 states and two Canadian Provinces, that have known cases of CWD. 24 states is almost half the United States. As for me, I will not hunt deer in an area of my state or any other state that has been shown to have CWD because I eat what I shoot, I do not hunt for bone, I hunt for meat and I prefer not to make the history books by being the first person to contract CWD from eating venison. My concern is not the destruction of the deer herds, I think the herds will survive, but the mutation of the disease and having no clear method to know if the deer you killed is infected until symptoms appear. How long will it be before the disease is present in more areas than it is not? At one time, the Mississippi was thought to be a natural barrier to prevent the disease from moving east, however, deer propagators have have opened that Pandora's box by buying and selling brood stock. I am seeing a cavalier attitude here regarding CWD that is surprising and concerning. Each of us, from all 50 states should be demanding that our respective states immediately shut down all captive breeding of ruminants and shut down moving said ruminants both in state and out of state. Unless we have our voices be heard, the money involved in deer breeding programs for obscenely big racks will prevail and CWD will continue to march across this country. What will happen when no one wants to hunt them anymore because of the chance of getting a terminal illness? In my state, it is deer that creat the license sales and are the sole support of the PA Game Commission that is in charge of all wildlife. Some food for thought!