Just before the CWD outbreak occurred in Green Ridge Forest, Maryland...one of my huntin' buddies told me that a elk hunter had died of CWD, after he contracted the illness, when he field dressed and quartered the elk.

West Virginia Natural Resources Police tried to quell the CWD outbreak, by wiping out the deer herd in infected zones. That occurred just before the disease jumped over the Potomac River and into GRF.

I believe that CWD is spread by deer droppings --- When the deer eat the plants next to the infected droppings.