This is a very serious finding … it is not cause for hysteria. It’s not cause for people running to the hills saying our deer population will plummet.

If the research is correct, and the (proteins) are able to bind to soils and remain infectious, it means additional deer might eventually be infected, even if we’ve managed to kill off all the previously...

It’s possible that it’s just one deer.

The officer noticed lots of raccoons living in very unclean conditions and lots of odor. There were a lot of feces and urine. It didn’t look like an appropriate situation at all, so he contacted...

We absolutely did not want them turned back into the wild because of disease concerns. We operated under the proper protocols established by the veterinary community.

Deer season is coming around this fall and people will be able to go out and hunt.

We’ve always suspected that deer were able to pick up the (infection) through the environment somehow.

We’re going to stick to science on this thing and avoid speculation.

You get lots of animals confined in a pretty tight area, so there are concerns about disease transmission.