The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a 2.5-year-old male deer legally harvested in southwestern Montgomery County. The deer was brought to a taxidermist in late November 2020 and DWR obtained the sample in January as part of the Department’s proactive statewide CWD Read more…
As a result of the Department of Wildlife Resources’ (DWR) 2020 – 2021 chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts, CWD was detected for the first time in Rappahannock County. The affected adult buck was harvested during the latter half of the regular firearms season. DWR is grateful to all cooperating Read more…
This was posted to Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources Facebook page on 23 DEC 2020. CWD has been confirmed for the first time in a hunter-harvested deer from Madison County. This male deer was harvested during the regular firearms season in the eastern part of Madison County. The Department of Read more…
Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources posted to their Facebook page on 18 Nov 2020 at 7:37 AM EST the following post: As a result of the DWR’s ongoing chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts, a hunter-harvested CWD-positive deer was recently confirmed in Loudoun County, less than 10 miles from the Read more…
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was confirmed by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) in 14 deer in Frederick County and two deer in Shenandoah County during the 2017 deer hunting season. Fifteen of the deer were harvested by hunters and one deer was killed by a vehicle. Read more…
RICHMOND, VA — Three new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) were detected in the northwestern corner of Virginia during the 2014 hunting season. For the first time, CWD was detected in Shenandoah County; a 2.5 year-old buck that was killed by a vehicle was sampled very close to the Read more…
Two new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) were detected in Frederick County during the 2013 hunting season. One deer, a 2.5 year old doe, was killed on November 30, 2013, in close proximity to the cluster of five CWD-positive deer harvested in Virginia since 2009. Additionally, a 1.5 year Read more…
RICHMOND, VA- Not unexpectedly, two new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) have been detected very close to where CWD-infected deer were found in 2009 and 2010. Both deer – a 4.5 year old buck and 1.5 year old doe – were killed by a hunter in November 2011 in Read more…
Richmond, VA — Since Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been detected from two deer harvested in Frederick County, Virginia, deer hunters must follow carcass importation regulations in other states when they transport a deer carcass out of Virginia. Hunters anywhere in Virginia going into Kentucky or North Carolina must bone-out Read more…
RICHMOND, VA- The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) wishes to recognize the excellent cooperation of hunters in sampling for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Frederick and Shenandoah counties this past November. To date, VDGIF has collected samples from more than 500 deer brought to check stations and Read more…
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