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Michigan has its first confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in a wild deer.
The contagious and fatal neurological disease affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose.
The Department of Natural Resources Tuesday confirmed that tests have come back positive on the animal that was observed last month wandering around a Meridian Township residence near Lansing showing signs of the illness.
State officials will now take a survey of the deer population in the area, check all deer killed in the area during hunting seasons and implement a deer and elk feeding and baiting ban in Clinton, Ingham and Shiawassee counties.
The last time chronic wasting disease showed up in Michigan was in 2008 in a white-tailed deer from a privately owned cervid facility in Kent County.
