CWD discovered in whitetail at Jefferson County facility in New York

For the first time since 2005, chronic wasting disease has been discovered in New York, this time in a deer at an unnamed facility in Jefferson County, in upstate New York. While not detected in wild deer in the area, state officials are taking measures to test local wild deer herds for the debilitating disease that is fatal to white-tailed deer.
The New York State Departments of Agriculture and Markets and Environmental Conservation in coordination with the State Department of Health a confirmed Oct. 27 a case of chronic wasting disease in an unnamed facility in DEC’s Region 6 area. The state is now implementing its inter-agency CWD Response Plan developed jointly by DEC and AGM to thoroughly investigate this detection and enhance surveillance of wild deer in the area.

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