OK, lets do this again. CWD is not like any disease you know. It is not infectious the same as any other disease.
Lets treat it like salt. If you spill a little salt its not the end of the world. Things adapt, things survive, its not that big of a deal. The environment deals with it. Now if you keep spilling salt in the same spot over and over and over it starts to concentrate. Becomes a problem and you have a real difficult time getting rid of it.
CWD acts in much the same way. It is a protein. It is not alive. It can not "die". It can be destroyed, at extreme temperatures, or with chemicals that break down the protein. Nature has difficulty dealing with it in large quantities.
If you concentrate animals in one place, over a long period of time, the higher the concentration of the protein. This just isn't a baiting issue, its a feed storage issue. In the CWD zone I would like to see bale yards fenced. Spread the deer out. In the low densities we have the spread of CWD should be slow.
I know they are working on a live test and a vaccination.
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