Minnesota

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is updating its chronic wasting disease response plan after the discovery of a wild white-tailed deer infected with CWD within the city of Grand Rapids. The response plan update will better reflect a statewide approach to disease surveillance, management, control and education.  This Read more…

December 6, 2021 Deer feeding and attractant bans expand; fall sampling shows CWD prevalence remains low A newly discovered instance of chronic wasting disease in the Brainerd Lakes area will result in three more years of sampling and other disease management efforts for that area. In addition, following the confirmation Read more…

News Release For immediate release: April 7, 2021 Contact: Michael Crusan St Paul, Minn – A 3-year-old white-tailed doe at a Beltrami County farm has been confirmed CWD positive by the USDA National Veterinary Services Laboratories. This 77-head herd was quarantined in October 2020 as part of the Board of Read more…

News Release For immediate release: February 22, 2021 Contact: Michael Crusan Saint Paul, Minn – Test results following the late-January depopulation of a Houston County white-tailed deer farm confirm nine additional cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD). Results from the National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed the detection of CWD in five Read more…

November 19, 2020 A wild deer harvested in Dakota County on Nov. 7 and a vehicle-killed deer in Olmsted County on Nov. 4 were confirmed positive for chronic wasting disease. To date, 95 wild deer have tested positive for CWD in Minnesota. The case of the Dakota County deer, an Read more…

For immediate release: October 15, 2020 Contact: Michael Crusan Saint Paul, Minn – Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been confirmed at a Houston County white-tailed deer farm. A 2 ½-year-old white-tailed doe tested positive for CWD after it died; all farmed cervids that die or are slaughtered must be tested for Read more…

News Release For immediate release: April 29, 2020 Contact: Michael Crusan Saint Paul, Minn – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health’s investigation of all herds with connections to the CWD-positive Douglas County farm is complete and revealed a total of six CWD positive deer. In all, eight herds in six counties were linked Read more…

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…