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A lymph node sample for chronic wasting disease testing. (Wyoming Game and Fish)
CASPER, Wyo. — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department said in a news release Monday that its Wildlife Health Laboratory tested 6,884 big game animal samples for chronic wasting disease in 2021, with 831 samples coming back positive.
The department said that 829 of 6,486 samples were positive for chronic wasting disease in 2020 after 568 of 5,067 samples tested positive in 2019. While the number of positive cases has increased, Wildlife Health Laboratory supervisor Hank Edwards cautioned against drawing too many conclusions because the department’s chronic wasting disease surveillance program focuses on different deer and elk herds each year.
“That said, we can say the prevalence of CWD is slowly increasing…
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