The Colorado Division of Wildlife is continuing efforts to track a fatal brain disease that attacks deer and elk by offering testing for hunters who want to check their animals.

Hunters can have the heads of their deer and elk tested for chronic wasting disease at 26 Division of Wildlife offices and by veterinarians at 30 sites across the state.

All deer and elk testing is voluntary and costs $15 per animal. The cost, which includes shipping, is $22 for hunters who have the testing done by veterinarians.

Moose testing is mandatory and is free if hunters take the head to a Division of Wildlife site. The disease has never been found in wild moose.

The division began offering testing to hunters in 2002 after chronic wasting disease was found for the first time in western Colorado.

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Source: Associated Press
October 27, 2004

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