A wildlife camera captures deer practicing allogrooming - deer engage in is allogrooming - grooming one another to get places that they can't reach on their own. During allogrooming, deer may eat ticks that have CWD infested blood. Submitted photo A new study from researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison finds that ticks can harbor transmissible amounts of the protein particle that causes Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), implicating the parasites as possible agents in the disease's spread between deer in Wisconsin.

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