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| | West Virginia DNR - Chronic Wasting Disease (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | As of August 2005, CWD is known to infect free-ranging deer and elk in portions of Colorado, Illinois, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, South Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Saskatchewan, Canada. |
 | | The discovery of CWD in Hampshire County, West Virginia represents a significant threat to the state’s white-tailed deer. |
 | | Due to the uncertain ramifications that CWD may have on the white-tailed deer resource in West Virginia, the WVDNR is taking immediate action to gather more information on the prevalence and distribution of the disease in the area surrounding the known infected deer. |
| www.wvdnr.gov /Hunting/ChronicWaste.shtm (934 words) |
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