After a nationwide ammunition shortage left Ohio gun owners strapped and deer season s opening day was wrecked by sleet turned into heavy snow, Ohio deer hunters need to be on the lookout for another potential calamity: chronic wasting disease.
Last week, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife identified chronic wasting disease, CWD, in a tissue sample from a wild white-tailed deer in Wyandot County, Brian Banbury said.
CWD is a naturally occurring wildlife disease, first discovered in Colorado in the 1960s, that white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose have tested positive for in now 26 states and four Canadian provinces. If contracted, the neurological disorder is untreatable and ultimately fatal.
Tissue sample confirms Chronic Wasting Disease in a wild Ohio deer
Staff Report
The Daily Jeffersonian (Cambridge, Ohio)
COLUMBUS – The Ohio Department of Natural Resources Division of Wildlife has identified a positive test for Chronic Wasting Disease in a wild Ohio white-tailed deer in Wyandot County.
The Division of Wildlife is gathering additional details about the adult male deer taken by a hunter on private property. Tissue samples were submitted for testing by a taxidermist and the positive test was identified after results were obtained on Dec. 10.
CWD is a fatal neurological disease that affects white-tailed deer and other similar species, including mule deer, elk, and moose.
Outdoornews
December 15, 2020
(Photo by Bob “Greenie” Grewell)
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Biologists have said for years that it’s just a matter of time before Ohio sees its first case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the wild white-tailed deer herd.
That time has come.
The Ohio DNR (ODNR) Division of Wildlife has identified a positive test for CWD in a wild Ohio white-tailed deer in Wyandot County. The Division of Wildlife is gathering additional details about the adult male deer taken by a hunter on private property. Tissue samples were submitted for testing by a taxidermist and the positive test was identified after results were obtained on Dec. 10.
First CWD case in wild deer in Ohio triggers mandatory sampling
A sample from a white-tailed deer in Wyandot County, Ohio, tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) Dec 10, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) yesterday, the first in a wild deer in the state. A
Daily Record report from May says there have been 21 cases of CWD at three captive deer farms in Ohio since 2015.
The new CWD case triggers enhanced surveillance within a 10-mile radius of the harvesting site, which was private property. Additionally, for the rest of the hunting season, which closes next Feb 7, deer samples will be mandated from all harvests in the county s Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area.
COLUMBUS, Ohio â The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife has identified a positive test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a wild Ohio white-tailed deer in Wyandot County. The Division of Wildlife is gathering additional details about the adult male deer taken by a hunter on private property. Tissue samples were submitted for testing by a taxidermist and the positive test was identified after results were obtained on Thursday, December 10, 2020.
CWD is a fatal neurological disease that affects white-tailed deer and other similar species, including mule deer, elk, and moose. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there is no strong evidence that CWD is transmissible to humans.