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Sept. 12, 2019 |  By: Jim Farris

CWD spreads if harvest carcass not properly disposed

With deer season around the corner, the Missouri Department of Conservation is getting the word out on Chronic Wasting Disease, an illness affecting white tails and other deer throughout Missouri.

Statewide News Services Coordinator Joe Jerek says that CWD is caused by improper handling of hunted deer.

"Chronic Wasting Disease can be spread through the improper disposal of deer carcasses.  The Department of Conservation really encourages folks to help prevent the spread of CWD to other deer by processing their harvested deer as close as possible to where it was harvested.  And then also the Department of Conservation recommends placing the carcass remains in trash bags and properly disposing them in the trash or a landfill."

Jerek says that if necessary, people are encouraged to bury or leave the deer at the harvest site. Chronic Wasting Disease has been discovered in deer in Mercer, Sullivan, Linn, and Macon Counties in the KXCV/KRNW listening area.