Video: CWD testing

Employees at the North Dakota Game and Fish Department are getting their hands dirty. They are spending much of today extracting the lymph nodes from moose, elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer that have been caught in the state. The Game and Fish Department are doing a yearly surveillance, looking for chronic wasting disease and bovine tuberculosis. The lymph nodes are sent away to laboratories in Minnesota and Michigan where they will undergo testing. Results from the past two years have shown the state's deer populations are free from both diseases. (Dan Grove/Wildlife Veterinarian, NDGF) "Not having it is good because its really expensive. They've spent over 100-million dollars in both Michigan and Minnesota trying to control just TB. And in the states with CWD its just as high if not higher. So its actually good that we dont have it because it means a lot of personnel time and a lot of monetary investment in control the disease and preventing the spread." Game and Fish hopes to dissect roughly one-thousand deer heads. They will be accepting the heads at various locations across the state. To view the entire listing of places, visit the website on your screen. Results from the testing should be completed by spring.