Chronic Wasting Disease Found in Oneida County Wild Deer

Chronic Wasting Disease Found in Oneida County Wild Deer: "The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) today announced it has received a preliminary positive result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer sampled in Oneida County. If confirmed, this will be the first known occurrence of CWD in the wild in New York State."

Discovering CWD in wild deer is not unexpected, given the previous detection of positive deer in captive deer farms. One positive of the 213 deer tested, less than 1/2 a percent, is fairly low relative to the outbreak in south-central Wisconsin (2-3%). Continued surveillance around the postive farms and in the affected area will be important to provide useful information to make reasonable management decisions.

Here are some useful CWD links:

CWD in New York
CWD Alliance
NWHC CWD Site