No joke here, really. This disease has insidiously spread, untreatable especially in wild herds, and long term fatal. If susceptible animals died quickly, disease would be self limiting, but long and chronic disease has more ability to spread unnoticed.
Sadly, this is not new disease, and is not covid. Research is on going, but because of slow progression of disease, difficult to track. Also, funding for veterinary research in non-food animals is limited.
Millions wasted on covid, barely find hundred thousands for CWD. Hunters may be the salvation.
CWD is untreatable in any infected animal, captive or wild.