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.