As part of the Missouri Department of Conservation's mandatory CWD sampling efforts, staff members remove lymph nodes for testing from the neck of a buck harvested in central Missouri the opening weekend of fall firearms deer season.

Five deer tested positive for the deadly chronic wasting disease from tests conducted by the Missouri Department of Conservation.

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