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CWD found in a downstate deer

DETROIT, MI (AP)--   Wildlife officials have confirmed Michigan's first case of chronic wasting disease in a wild deer.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced Tuesday that tests found the contagious and fatal disease that attacks the brains of infected deer and elk in a white-tailed female deer in Ingham County's Meridian Township.

Chronic wasting disease hasn't appeared in Michigan since one infected white-tailed deer was detected in 2008 at a Kent County breeding farm.

Officials say they will require mandatory testing of deer killed in the surrounding area during hunting season and implement a deer and elk feeding and hunting ban in Ingham, Shiawassee and Clinton counties.

The DNR says the disease has been detected in deer, elk or moose in 23 states.