Outdoors: Partnership between OSU, others speeding chronic wasting disease testing
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The Miller Lake lamprey is the smallest landlocked parasitic lamprey in the world.
By Molly Rosbach
Oregon State University Writer
Faster and more widespread testing for chronic wasting disease in deer is now possible due to a new partnership between the Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at Oregon State University's Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Chronic wasting disease is spread through animals' waste and saliva, and infected animals can be contagious for months or years before showing symptoms. It is incurable and affects members of the cervidae family: deer, elk and moose.
The disease has not been detect...
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