JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri conservation officials say tests of deer from the fall hunting season have indicated no new cases of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer.
The Department of Conservation says nearly 3,700 deer were tested. About 40 percent of the animals came from a containment zone of a half-dozen counties in north-central Missouri.
Chronic wasting disease causes degeneration of the brain in deer. It is spread by contact among the animals and through infected soil.