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Chronic Wasting Disease Increasing but Hunters Eat More Venison

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The number of Wisconsin deer testing positive for Chronic Wasting Disease has gone up by 22 this year. Despite the numbers hunters in the disease hot zone opted to keep and eat more of the deer they killed than in the past two years. Gil Halsted reports…

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