MONTPELIER, Vt. (ABC22/FOX44) - Vermont's Fish & Wildlife Department has a regulation that hunters may want to remember, one that aims to keep deer healthy.

This regulation bans the use of deer lures that contain deer urine or other deer bodily fluids, according to the VTF&W release.

But why? VTF&W officials say that such lures can pass the Chronic Wasting Disease infectious agent through urine, specifically via mutant proteins. Chronic Wasting Disease is fatal to deer.

These proteins, also called prions, can remain infectious for multiple years.

Officials also wrote that urine-based lures often come from captive deer facilities "where CWD is most likely to occur." Animals can spread CWD before showing symptoms.

“If CWD becomes established in Vermont, the deer population, deer managem

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