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In reply to the discussion: Overkill: Armed Agents Raid Wisconsin Animal Shelter; Kill Baby Deer Named Giggles "It was like SWAT [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)where it is endemic, spread outward from there and has been found in 15 states and 2 Canadian provinces, with the greatest concentration in the 4 corners where it is endemic, not just the 2 states you're harping on.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/cwd/
"...CWD was first identified as a fatal wasting syndrome in captive mule deer in Colorado in the late 1960s and in the wild in 1981. It was recognized as a spongiform encephalopathy in 1978.
By the mid-1990s, CWD had been diagnosed among free-ranging deer and elk in a contiguous area in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming, where the disease is now endemic. In recent years, CWD has been found in areas outside of this disease-endemic zone, including areas east of the Mississippi River. The geographic range of diseased animals currently includes 15 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces and is likely to continue to grow. Surveillance studies of hunter-harvested animals indicate the overall prevalence of the disease in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming from 1996 to 1999 was estimated to be approximately 5% in mule deer, 2% in white-tailed deer, and <1% in elk.
Chronic Wasting Disease Among Free-Ranging Cervids by County, United States, August 2012

Colorado
1.Boulder County
2.Douglas County
3.Eagle County
4.El Paso County
5.Grand County
6.Jackson County
7.Jefferson County
8.Larimer County
9.Logan County
10.Mesa County
11.Moffatt County
12.Morgan County
13.Phillips County
14.Pueblo County
15.Rio Blanco County
16.Routt County
17.Sedgwick County
18.Summit County
19.Weld County
20.Yuma County
Illinois
1.Boone County
2.Dekalb County
3.Grundy County
4.Jo Daviess County
5.Kane County
6.LaSalle County
7.McHenry County
8.Ogle County
9.Stephenson County
10.Winnebago County
Kansas
1.Cheyenne County
2.Decatur County
3.Ford County
4.Graham County
5.Logan County
6.Norton County
7.Rawlins County
8.Sheridan County
9.Sherman County
10.Smith County
11.Stafford County
12.Thomas County
13.Trego County
14.Wallace County
Maryland
1.Allegany County
Minnesota
1.Olmsted County
Missouri
1.Macon County
Nebraska
1.Arthur County
2.Banner County
3.Box Butte County
4.Buffalo County
5.Cherry County
6.Cheyenne County
7.Custer County
8.Dawes County
9.Deuel County
10.Garden County
11.Grant County
12.Hall County
13.Hitchcock County
14.Holt County
15.Hooker County
16.Keith County
17.Kimball County
18.Lincoln County
19.Loup County
20.Morrill County
21.Red Willow County
22.Scotts Bluff County
23.Sheridan County
24.Sioux County
New Mexico
1.Dona Ana County
2.Otero County
3.Socorro County
New York
1.Oneida County
North Dakota
1.Grant County
2.Sioux County
South Dakota
1.Custer County
2.Fall River County
3.Lawrence County
4.Pennington County
Texas
1.El Paso County
2.Hudspeth County
Utah
1.Daggett County
2.Grand County
3.San Juan County
4.Sanpete County
5.Uintah County
6.Utah County
Virginia
1.Frederick County
West Virginia
1.Hampshire County
2.Hardy County
Wisconsin
1.Columbia County
2.Dane County
3.Grant County
4.Green County
5.Iowa County
6.Jefferson County
7.Kenosha County
8.Lafayette County
9.Richland County
10.Rock County
11.Sauk County
12.Walworth County
13.Washburn County
Wyoming
1.Albany County
2.Big Horn County
3.Carbon County
4.Converse County
5.Crook County
6.Goshen County
7.Hot Springs County
8.Johnson County
9.Laramie County
10.Lincoln County
11.Natrona County
12.Niobrara County
13.Platte County
14.Sheridan County
15.Washakie County
16.Weston County
Thus by July 19, 2012, we have had 121 counties in 17 states with reported CWD in free-ranging cervids.
You also seem to want to ignore the fact that the shelter in Kenosha could have been allowed to transport the fawn back to the state it came from, to the licensed rehab center. The shelter was not to blame that somebody from IL brought the deer to them. They took care of it while making arrangements to return it.
That certainly did not justify the Warden treating the investigation like a "drug bust."
You also seem to want to ignore the fact that the shelter has been repeatedly harassed, including by officials, ever since they refused to adopt a dog back out to the person who "got rid of it" in the first place.
The Warden's ham-handed, violent treatment of the shelter and the fawn they housed was over-the-top, wasteful of resources, mean-spirited, cruel, spiteful and totally unecessary. Killing the fawn did nothing to prevent the spread of CWD.
Have a nice day. I will not waste any more of my time arguing with somebody who pretends greater knowledge of a disease origination, spread, and endemic presence than the CDC that has been tracking it for nearly 50 years.