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No new cases of CWD detected in Kentucky

todayMay 7, 2025 61

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Kentucky Fish and Wildlife has completed its chronic wasting disease surveillance and testing for the commonwealth’s 2024-2025 deer season.

KFW says after 9,204 samples from across the state were tested, no new cases of chronic wasting disease were found in wild deer.

KFW says about 4,500 of the collected samples came from the the two multi-county CWD detection zones that were established around Ballard County after a wild deer there tested positive in November 2023 and around Breckinridge County after a captive deer there tested positive in October 2024. CWD samples were submitted by hunters via sample drop-off sites, sample mail-in kits, partnering taxidermists and processors, and mandatory check stations. The department also tests roadkill and sick or dead deer found outside of hunting season.

KFW says Kentucky deer hunting generates nearly $2 billion in economic impacts for the state as more than 300,000 hunters pursue the animals during the hunting seasons. The state monitors chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological disease that affects cervids such as deer or elk, in order to help preserve the state’s culture, food supply, and economy.

More information on CWD as well as information on Kentucky deer hunting is available at fw.ky.gov.

Written by: 94.3 The Wolf

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