21.   Pringle is highly critical of wildlife officials for downplaying the seriousness of chronic wasting disease.

22.   Researchers suspect a fungus is behind rapid wasting disease and various bacteria are implicated in other new coral diseases.

23.   The malady is called chronic wasting disease.

24.   The prevalence and incidence of chronic wasting disease has not changed much over the past several years, she said.

25.   The Texas Animal Health Commission has declared a halt to the importation of any deer or elk from Colorado into Texas because of chronic wasting disease.

26.   There is no evidence that chronic wasting disease infects humans.

27.   Wildlife officials fear that chronic wasting disease will make its way from the game farms into wild populations in Montana.

28.   Chronic wasting disease also has been found in wild or captive elk and deer in midwestern states and Canada.

29.   Chronic wasting disease is not known to jump from deer and elk to cattle or people.

30.   So far, chronic wasting disease has been found among deer in the wild in northeast Colorado, southeast Wyoming and parts of Nebraska.