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Animal health and wildlife officials have taken action to secure the facility and identify and notify other breeding facilities that received deer or shipped deer to this facility in the last five years.
News Release, Sept. 23, 2022: Chronic Wasting Disease Confirmed at a Limestone County Deer Breeding Facility
News Release, Sept. 2, 2022: Chronic Wasting Disease Discovered at a Deer Breeding Facility in Gillespie County
After the death of a white-tailed deer on the premises was identified, tissue samples from the one-year-old buck were submitted by the deer breeding facility as part of a required CWD surveillance program. The samples were tested at the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory in College Station on August 17 and indicated the presence of CWD.
For over a year, the Williams have been feuding with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) over possible chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the herd.