Officials are testing dead animals and monitoring migratory elk and deer at the state border with Utah for signs of the sickness, Nevada Department of Wildlife veterinarian Peregrine Wolff said. Nevada legislators earlier this year passed a law to keep parts of certain carcasses out of the state in an attempt to stop the spread of the disease. Nevada lawmakers this year banned bringing certain animal body parts into the state, including the brain and the spinal cord, which can contain large concentrations of prions. Officials fear the spread of the disease into Nebraska, Utah, Idaho and Nevada, Nevada Department of Agriculture veterinarian J.J. Goicoechea told lawmakers. Efforts to decrease risk probably would not stop the disease at the Nevada state line, Wolff said.

Source: Taipei Times October 09, 2019 16:07 UTC