11.   Chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological illness that affects deer and elk, has now spread to New Mexico.

12.   Chronic wasting disease, akin to mad cow disease, has spread through deer and elk in Colorado, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Montana.

13.   Experts say conventional consumption of elk or deer meat infected with chronic wasting disease should not pose a significant risk to humans.

14.   Hunters and biologists also fear the spread of disease from captive animals to wild animals, especially chronic wasting disease, which is similar to mad cow disease.

15.   Imported animals must be tested for various ailments, including tuberculosis, but there is no live animal test for chronic wasting disease.

16.   Illnesses, such as an incurable, fatal wasting disease, took a toll as well.

17.   In game animals such as deer and elk, the prions cause a disorder called chronic wasting disease.

18.   In recent years, AIDS patients have joined the ranks of victims of wasting diseases who use the drinks to put on crucial weight.

19.   Nothing new about the danger of contracting the fatal brain wasting disease had come to light recently.

20.   Other such diseases are scrapie in sheep and chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.