RALEIGH, N.C. — A deadly neurological disease in deer is spreading in North Carolina just weeks before hunting season.
N.C. Wildlife reported the second case of chronic wasting disease in a deer in Yadkin County, west of Winston-Salem. The deer was just one mile from where the first case was discovered after March 31.
To minimize the spread, wildlife officials said deer should not be transported outside the area on the map.
Chronic wasting disease is always fatal in deer, elk, moose and reindeer/caribou, according to N.C. Wildlife. So far, there have been no reports of the disease spreading to humans.
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