The Michigan Department of Natural Resources has unveiled that a second case of chronic wasting disease in wild deer has happened. A two-year-old male found near Lansing in Meridian Township has tested positive for the disease.

The place from where the second case has been detected is just a mile from the first case, which was tested positive in May. The chronic wasting disease is a contagious, fatal disease that attacks the brains of infected deer and elk.

Lt. Greg Frenger said, “This is a very persistent disease, it gets in the soil and it lasts for hundreds of years so it will be an issue that will be dealt with a long time for the deer population”.

Andy Schwartz, with Texas Animal Health Commission, said that they are trying to protect and not to have any overregulation. They need to think and hear all the possible sides and then reach at a conclusion.

The disease was first time discovered in 1967 and has passed to at least 21 states and two Canadian provinces. The disease can be passed from deer-to-deer or through indirect contact. Experts said that they have been trying to control the situation as fast and systematically as then.

They will soon reach at decisions that will be fine with the industry people as well. DNR deer management biologist Chad Stewart does not think that things will affect the hunting in Texas. He thinks that people will continue coming there, as deer are available.