Five years ago, the department recommended that hunters be advised of chronic wasting disease and of precautions they should take when handling animals. Those included wearing gloves, avoiding brain, spinal and lymph node tissues, and boning the meat. The division now tests hunters' animals in the highly affected areas. That criticism has grown louder since recent laboratory tests found that infected protein from a deer can transfer to protein from a human in a test tube. The other 10 percent of classic CDJ cases are genetic.
Scientists suspect sporadic cases are a natural error.
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