The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has confirmed that a road-killed 4.5 year-old female white-tailed deer in Holmes County sampled during routine surveillance activities has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). It is the first known case of CWD in Florida. CWD is a contagious disease of Read more
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has not found any evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) after years of extensive testing of the state’s white-tailed deer population. The FWC tested 910 free-ranging deer during the past year and 5,519 deer during the past nine years, with no CWD-positive Read more
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has not found any evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) after extensive testing of the state’s white-tailed deer population. The FWC tested 582 free-ranging deer during the past year and more than 4,000 deer during the past seven years, with no CWD-positive Read more
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is looking to hunters this coming season to help it monitor the state’s deer herd for chronic wasting disease. Read full article (PDF) By Tony Young.
After extensive testing, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has not found any evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the state’s white-tailed deer population. The FWC tested 636 free-ranging deer during the past year and more than 3,000 deer during the past five years, with no CWD-positive Read more
The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has concluded Florida’s deer herd shows no signs of chronic wasting disease (CWD) after four years of testing for the deadly disease. CWD is a contagious neurological disease that has been found in captive and wild herds of mule deer, white-tailed deer and Read more
As fall hunting seasons get under way, Florida wildlife officials are reminding hunters it is illegal to bring home carcasses of any species of the family Cervidae (e.g. deer, elk and moose) from 10 states and one Canadian province where chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been detected. The states and Read more
Two years of testing for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Florida’s deer herd reveals no signs of the fatal disease the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) announced today. CWD is a progressive, fatal disease that wildlife authorities in some midwestern and western states have detected in captive and wild Read more
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is looking to Florida’s sportsmen for help in monitoring for chronic wasting disease (CWD). CWD is a progressive, fatal disease that wildlife authorities have detected in mule deer, white-tailed deer and Rocky Mountain elk in captive herds and in the wild in Read more
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has found no signs of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Florida’s deer herd. The FWC tested 676 free-ranging deer, and the Florida Department of Agriculture tested 14 captive deer for CWD in Florida during 2002-2003. No deer tested positive for CWD. CWD Read more