Deer Disease Study
By: Jim Carnicella
Updated: May 31, 2007
A new study shows that hunter-killed deer in Pennsylvania are clear of disease.
The New Bolton Center, a veterinary diagnostic laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania, conducted tests on hunter-killed deer and elk in Pennsylvania and found no trace of c-w-d.
C-w-d is known as chronic wasting disease.
The study comes in light of c-w-d being found in New York and West Virginia in 2005.
Each year, the number of samples tested for the disease increases, giving doctors a better chance of finding the disease in the deer and elk.
The testing done on the animals cost seventy-five-thousand, and was paid for by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
