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<blockquote data-quote="BrockW" data-source="post: 432706" data-attributes="member: 5910">Well for one it’s not referring to the entire population. It’s just the prevalence in that area. There’s counties/units that don’t have any positives and are likely at 0% prevalence.But 2….just because we’ve only found 1 dead (but at least 2 very near death), doesn’t mean that’s the only ones that have died. You don’t find every deer that’s died from a mountain lion, or a coyote, or EHD.&nbsp; For Pete’s sake, hunters don’t even find every deer they shoot!So how would one expect to find every dead deer from CWD in a unit sized area with 5% prevalence?But everywhere you look, once you start getting into high prevalence. You start seeing more dead deer, more sick deer, simply because a high percentage of that local population is infected.The folks in Arkansas had the Cabelas family foundation come down to fund some research. A couple days of driving around and they found an end stage CWD deer standing in the road like it was lost. Stumbling down into the ditch. They could walk right up to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrockW, post: 432706, member: 5910"] Well for one it’s not referring to the entire population. It’s just the prevalence in that area. There’s counties/units that don’t have any positives and are likely at 0% prevalence. But 2….just because we’ve only found 1 dead (but at least 2 very near death), doesn’t mean that’s the only ones that have died. You don’t find every deer that’s died from a mountain lion, or a coyote, or EHD. For Pete’s sake, hunters don’t even find every deer they shoot! So how would one expect to find every dead deer from CWD in a unit sized area with 5% prevalence? But everywhere you look, once you start getting into high prevalence. You start seeing more dead deer, more sick deer, simply because a high percentage of that local population is infected. The folks in Arkansas had the Cabelas family foundation come down to fund some research. A couple days of driving around and they found an end stage CWD deer standing in the road like it was lost. Stumbling down into the ditch. They could walk right up to it. [/QUOTE]

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