SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) - The Illinois Department of Natural Resources is reminding deer hunters about locations where deer can be tested for chronic wasting disease free of charge. Chronic wasting disease is a deadly disease of the central nervous system in deer and elk. It was first detected in a suspect adult female deer from northwest Boone County in 2002. Since then, 185,896 wild deer have been sampled statewide, and 2,748 individual deer tested positive. The disease has been detected across a 25-county area of northern and west-central Illinois. Wildlife biologists monitor the geographic distribution and intensity of CWD through testing of hunter-harvested deer. It is not known to be transmissible to humans. However, the Centers for Disease Control and Preventio

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