Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Just the Facts

Thomas J. Roffe; Dick Jachowski

doi:10.3133/fs07402

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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Just the Facts

Thomas J. Roffe·Dick Jachowski

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Abstract

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has appeared widely in the media lately, but has actually been around for a while. It was first recognized in Colorado in 1967, in a captive research herd of mule deer. Its rapid expansion, to include eight states and two provinces by the year 2002, has created a crisis.

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Thomas J. Roffe, Dick Jachowski. 2002. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): Just the Facts. https://doi.org/10.3133/fs07402

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