Mich. officials confirm deer ‘wasting’ disease

Michigan’s first case of chronic wasting disease was confirmed Monday in a white-tailed deer from a privately owned facility in the state’s western Lower Peninsula.

Michigan officials have quarantined all privately owned cervid facilities and banned the movement of all privately owned deer, elk and moose.

There is no evidence that the disease exists in free-ranging, wild deer in Michigan. But as a precaution, the state will increase its testing of wild herds and place restrictions on hunters in some areas.

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