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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 415828" data-attributes="member: 389">To say we have gotten better at testing for CWD, would be quite the understatement even though it's still got a long ways to go.Nonetheless, ever since the creation of state agencies for wildlife management, there have been people calling them and reporting strange looking/behaving and dead critters.&nbsp; My only experience at it was calling in a young buck that was in the final stages of a brain worm.&nbsp; Still, if there had been a widespread and mysterious disease that caused emaciation and death of deer, there would be at least some reports of this in the records of the state veterinarian or wildlife management agencies, etc.And when they finally figured out the cause of those mysterious deaths, it would have been an &quot;ah HAH&quot; moment.&nbsp; To date, I am not aware of any such moment, or widespread (even if it were just a few cases per year) of such in people's backyards, hay piles, or XXXX.&nbsp; No, Occam's Razor suggests this is a fairly new disease with some of the first examples being found in WY.&nbsp; Is it exasperated by agricultural chemicals as the above discussion suggests?&nbsp; That is a damn good question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Allen, post: 415828, member: 389"] To say we have gotten better at testing for CWD, would be quite the understatement even though it's still got a long ways to go. Nonetheless, ever since the creation of state agencies for wildlife management, there have been people calling them and reporting strange looking/behaving and dead critters. My only experience at it was calling in a young buck that was in the final stages of a brain worm. Still, if there had been a widespread and mysterious disease that caused emaciation and death of deer, there would be at least some reports of this in the records of the state veterinarian or wildlife management agencies, etc. And when they finally figured out the cause of those mysterious deaths, it would have been an "ah HAH" moment. To date, I am not aware of any such moment, or widespread (even if it were just a few cases per year) of such in people's backyards, hay piles, or XXXX. No, Occam's Razor suggests this is a fairly new disease with some of the first examples being found in WY. Is it exasperated by agricultural chemicals as the above discussion suggests? That is a damn good question. [/QUOTE]

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