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A deadly disease in deer is found for the first time in Washington.

The deer was found dead in Spokane County.

Chronic wasting disease has been creeping westward for years, and state wildlife leaders have been worried about its arrival.

It's also been found in Idaho, but not Oregon.

There is no cure for chronic wasting disease.

It can spread to deer, elk and moose, all of which are in the deer family, known as cervids.

There's no evidence that the disease can spread to people, but the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does recommend people do not eat meat from an infected animal.

Find out how the state Department of Fish and Wildlife will be tracking this outbreak.

That's on NWPB.org.

Well, it's been hot, hot, hot all over the region.

In Wenatchee, Community for the Advancement of Family Education, or CAFE, organized a drive thru event recently for farm workers to pick up things like face masks and informational pamphlets about safety in the extreme weather.

CAFEs environmental justice coordinator, Yesenia Perez, says she's seeing a lot of farm workers leaving because they don't have the resources they need to stay safe.

“Giving them little factsheets about how long you should be outside, how to stay hydrated, how to cool down.

These are things that you might not see, but you can definitely still feel them and affect your health.” The American Lung Association reports agricultural workers are 35 times more likely to die from heat related stress than workers in other industries, and that about three quarters of those workers identify as Hispanic or Latino.

Now, a big congratulations to Virginia Hislop.

She's 105-years-old and has just received her master's degree from Stanford University.

She earned it back in 1941.

Virginia has lived in the Yakima Valley since 1946.

She told NWPB she was just about to turn in her final thesis when, with World War Two on the horizon, she left school to marry her then boyfriend, George.

“My son in law decided to poke into it because I had said Id done this work and did not have a degree to show for it.

And so he contacted the Stanford Department of Education, and sure enough, I was entitled to the degree.

Come June, when they were handing out certificates, I got mine.” And she shared some advice: find something you enjoy and something you find challenging.

I like that.

Head to our website for the full interview with Virginia.

You won't want to miss it.

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I'm Tracy Dial with your NWPB Weekly News Now.

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