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The Wyoming Game & Fish Department is asking hunters in the Cody area to submit samples to help monitor for chronic wasting disease (CWD). CWD impacts the nervous system and can be fatal for deer, elk and moose.

The department wants samples from elk and mule deer in certain hunting areas. A map of the hunting areas can be found here.

Hunters can drop them off at check stations as well as the Game and Fish office, Medicine Lodge State Park and at Northwest College on the south side of the Science and Math building. Some taxidermists and processors in the Big Horn basin accept samples as well.

The disease has not been shown to transmit to humans. However, hunters are still advised to wear gloves and avoid handling brain or spinal tissue.

Game and Fish is collecting these samples to help monitoring the disease in the state. It has already spread to most areas of the state.