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At the ARS National Animal Disease Center in Ames, Iowa, animal caretaker Gary Hansen tends to two jersey steers. The steers are used as controls in a CWD cross-species transmission experiment in which cattle were inoculated intracerebrally with CWD-infected brain tissue.