CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire continues escaping a disease that has hit white-tailed deer from western Canada to the Northeast.

Fish and Game says tests based on last year’s hunting season showed no evidence of chronic wasting disease in deer in New Hampshire.

The disease is a neurological disorder that kills white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose. The tests were part of a national monitoring program.

The disease was remained isolated in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska for about a decade, through the late 1980s, but since has spread as far east as New York and West Virginia.

AP-ES-05-16-07 1347EDT

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