Do you have any way of checking the deer you killed for Chronic Wasting Disease? Or does your Fish & Game dept. track the disease in your local populations? Just something to keep in mind.
http://jvi.asm.org/content/83/18/9608.full
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The Arkansas Game & Fish Commission monitors that in this area, but all deer that I have seen look good, or they got hit my vehicles.
None of the locals ever mentioned anything about CWD.
The issue is that they could be infectious long before they develop symptoms like you would see in those "mad cow" videos, or the moose in this PBS Nature episode.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/moose-life-of-a-twig-eater-about/13752/
Not trying to scare you or suggest that you need to buy a microscope. If F&G is monitoring the situation, and you monitor them, that may be just as safe as beef.
Thanks for that!
Also, checking out those poll posts is still on my to-do list!!!