A baiting ban will not be imposed for Michigan's Upper Peninsula after further testing of a deer shows it is clear of Chronic Wasting Disease.

Final chronic wasting disease results are negative for a white-tailed deer on a northwestern Wisconsin hunting preserve, State Veterinarian Dr. Robert Ehlenfeldt announced Thursday. This means the deer did not have CWD.

The National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa, reported the test results late Tuesday. Ehlenfeldt released the quarantine that had been in place since Nov. 4 for the hunting preserve and an associated deer breeding farm.

NVSL pathologists ran tissue samples through what they described as "an exhaustive process using all diagnostic techniques available" and did not detect CWD.

The 3½-year-old buck was routinely tested after being killed by a hunter Oct. 18 in Bayfield County. If the results were positive the Department of Natural Resources and Environment would have imposed a baiting ban across the Upper Peninsula in December.