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Medical experts are investigating the deaths of threehunters from brain-destroying illnesses, in order todetermine whether chronic wasting disease has crossed fromanimals into humans in the U.S., just as Mad Cow disease didin Europe.

The men were friends who ate elk and deer meat at wild gamefeasts hosted by one of them in Wisconsin during the 1980sand ’90s. All three died in the 1990s. Investigators want toknow if the men contracted their diseases from the meat ofinfected game.
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Hunters are out in the woods in southwestern Wisconsin, trying to kill every single deer in order to halt the outbreak of Chronic Wasting Disease, which is related to Mad Cow Disease. The Department of Natural Resources has asked hunters to kill all the 25,000 deer in a 361-square-mile area, where 18 deer with chronic wasting disease have been found. There?s no evidence that CWD can infect humans, but hunters are advised not to eat any of the deer, unless they get them tested first.
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