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Testing Reveals Boulder, Colo., 'Hot Spot' of Deer Disease Still Remains.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003

By Aimee Heckel, Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 17--An area straddling Boulder and Larimer counties that was considered a "hot spot" for chronic wasting disease last year is still hot, according to preliminary results from tests of recently killed deer.

Results also confirm that several pockets in the area have an even higher rate of the neurological disease, reaching an estimated 40 percent of the deer there.

Colorado Division of Wildlife officials have killed and tested 127 deer from the "Little Thompson hot spot" this year, said Dave Clarkson, a specialist in chronic wasting disease for the division. Results from 19 deer in the Rabbit Mountain Open Space and 50 deer on private property north of...

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