BY BOB FRYE CWDECADE A DIFFERENT WORLD IN 10 YEARS TIME This is an anniversary significant enough to merit notice, but dire enough to warrant no celebration. October marks 10 years since Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) first appeared in Pennsylvania. It showed up in captive deer in Adams County in 2012, then in wild deer in Bedford and Blair counties in early 2013. That was bad news then. It remains bad news today. Neither deer nor elk develop an immunity to the always-fatal disease, which remains infectious in the environment for years if not decades. " There are still no treatments, cures or vaccines for CWD, " said Andrea Korman, the Game Commission's Chronic Wasting Disease Section Supervisor. " Once CWD becomes established, there is no getting rid of it. " There's no ignoring it either. CWD has changed deer hunting for many, impacting what tools they can use, what they must do with some deer parts and what OCTOBER 2022 23 Jacob Dingel