Since CWD's discovery in 1967 there has never been a case of a human being infected from a deer either by handling or consuming. Based on statistics, thousands of CWD positive deer have been handled and eaten since then. I hunt in the CWD counties in TN. We process our own, debone and freeze the meat until we get the test results back. All 5 deer we killed were negative. If they were positive, I wouldn't have consumed the meat, but I'm not scared to death of it.

I wonder how many hunters have died since 1967 falling out of stands, wrecking while driving to hunt, being struck by lightning while hunting? CWD to humans is at this point one of the least dangers to deer hunters....