The Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed Indiana’s second positive case of chronic wasting disease (CWD). CWD is a neurological disease that affects deer, resulting in their eventual death. The positive, wild white-tailed deer was a 2.5-year-old male harvested in Posey County. CWD has been detected in wild Read more
On April 5, 2024, chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected in an Indiana deer for the first time. The deer was a hunter-harvested white-tailed deer taken during deer season in LaGrange County. End of information given by The Indiana Department of Natural Resources. All Indiana CWD information can be viewed Read more
Purdue University and the state of Indiana have joined a federal effort to prevent spread of chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness that has been detected in wild and domestic deer and elk in 11 states, not including Indiana. This month, pathologists at the Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratories (ADDL), Read more
With hundreds of Indiana deer tested for a deadly, incurable disease, it’s been all good news so far. State officials say there have been no positive test results for chronic wasting disease. “We’re glad we don’t have a positive thus far but we still have a long way to go. Read more
This could be one of the more important deer hunting seasons in Indiana’s history. The Department of Natural Resources and the Board of Animal Health are looking for something it doesn’t want to find — chronic wasting disease in wild deer herds. Wisconsin found the incurable and deadly disease in Read more
Michigan wildlife officials have issued a plea to Berrien County deer hunters: We need your deer. In a state-wide effort to test deer for Bovine Tuberculosis and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), wildlife managers are gathering samples from all counties along the Indiana and Wisconsin borders as well as several interior Read more
State officials have launched their first-ever testing program to determine whether Indiana’s deer herd is infected with chronic wasting disease, a “mad cow”-related illness spreading through the Midwest. Officials from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources said at least 1,100 deer killed by hunters around the state this fall will Read more