News Release For immediate release: March 13, 2020 Contact: Erin Crider Saint Paul, Minn – Test results from the depopulation of a Pine County deer farm have confirmed four additional cases chronic wasting disease (CWD). The first CWD positive animals at this farm were confirmed in January 2020, resulting in depopulation Read more…
March 13, 2020 Discovery marks first case of CWD in this area of Minnesota A wild deer in Dakota County was confirmed positive for chronic wasting disease, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said. The deer, an adult male, was reported by a local resident near Farmington as displaying neurological symptoms and was tested as part of the DNR’s risk-based disease surveillance program. It is the first detection of the Read more…
News Release For immediate release: January 10, 2020 Contact: Michael Crusan Investigation leads to additional CWD positive deer on Pine County farm News Release For immediate release: January 10, 2020 Contact: Michael Crusan Saint Paul, MN- The ongoing chronic wasting disease investigation of farms tied to the Douglas County detection Read more…
News Release For immediate release: December 10, 2019 Contact: Erin Crider Saint Paul, Minn – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirms an 8-year-old white-tailed doe tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) after its white-tailed buck pen-mate killed it in a small, two-deer, hobbyist herd in Douglas County. The Read more…
News Release For immediate release: April 17, 2019 Contact: Michael Crusan CWD positive Crow Wing County deer farm depopulated The Minnesota Board of Animal Health announced the depopulation of all the deer on a Crow Wing County Farm first infected with CWD in 2016. The USDA is providing indemnity to Read more…
February 15, 2019 Gov. Walz proposes new funding to combat CWD; DNR plans disease response efforts The Department of Natural Resources has confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Crow Wing County. This test result marks the first time in Minnesota the fatal neurological disease has been Read more…
Saint Paul, Minn – Chronic wasting disease was detected in four harvested samples from farmed deer at a quarantined farm in Crow Wing County. The farm has been under movement restrictions and monitored by the Board since December 2016 when two white-tailed deer tested positive for the disease. The Minnesota Read more…
Minnesota’s Office of the Legislative Auditor has tentative plans to review the state’s management of deer and elk farms in response to urgings from legislators, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and at least two deer-hunting groups. Judy Randall, deputy legislative auditor, said Tuesday that concerns about the possible spread Read more…
DNR initiates disease response plan; offers hunters information on field dressing Test results show two deer harvested by hunters in southeastern Minnesota were infected with Chronic Wasting Disease, according to the Department of Natural Resources. One deer has been confirmed as CWD-positive. Confirmation of the second is expected later this Read more…
No chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected in hunter-harvested deer in southeastern Minnesota during the 2014 firearms season, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The discovery of the disease in a wild deer earlier this year in Allamakee County, Iowa, triggered the Minnesota DNR’s surveillance effort. The Iowa Read more…