“…The emergence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an example of such a disease, as it has led to reluctance to hunt white-tailed deer and other cervids such as mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), elk (Cervus canadensis), and moose (Alces alces). CWD is a contagious and fatal neurological disease that affects free-ranging cervids (Edmunds et al, 2016) and has been detected in 26 US states, three Canadian provinces, and many other countries around the world, including South Korea, Norway, Finland, and Sweden (Ableman et al, 2019). The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends testing harvested deer and advises people not to consume meat from a CWD-positive deer (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2021).…”