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Feature Chronic Wasting Disease— Prion Disease in the Wild Steve Bunk n 1967, mule deer in a research epidemiologist at Colorado State was fi rst diagnosed in deer east of facility near Fort Collins, University in Fort Collins. He’s been the Mississippi River, indicating a IColorado, in the United States scientifi cally involved with BSE, since it potential nationwide problem. This apparently began to react badly to was fi rst discovered among cattle in the year, the USDA is developing a herd their captivity. At least, that was the United Kingdom in 1986. He recalls certifi cation program to help prevent guess of researchers working on the predicting that lay interest in BSE the movement of infected animals in natural history and nutrition of the would wane after fi ve years. Instead, the game farming industry. This will deer, which became listless and showed the disease was found in the mid-1990s bolster monitoring already underway signs of depressed mood, hanging to be capable of killing humans who in virtually every state, including their heads and lowering their ears. ate tainted beef. “I was wrong, and it postmortem examinations of game They lost appetite and weight. Then really changed my way of thinking, killed by hunters and by sharpshooters they died—of emaciation, pneumonia, in mass culling operations. and other complications—or were