The Minnesota Board of Animal Health would regulate all captive elk and deer in the state under a legislative proposal to help stop the spread of chronic wasting disease. The proposal by a broad-based task force would have the board operate a mandatory registration and chronic wasting disease surveillance program. Read more…
ST. PAUL, Minn. – The Minnesota Board of Animal Health today announced that an elk from a Stearns County farmed elk herd has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The animal was one of 21 elk on a farm near Sauk Center that were being quarantined and tested due Read more…
So far, the news on chronic wasting disease in Minnesota remains good. Test results on nearly 2,000 deer samples collected from Minnesota hunters this fall have been received, and none tested positive for chronic wasting disease, DNR officials reported. Those samples include 498 of the 528 collected for hunters by Read more…
Two more elk herds in Minnesota will be destroyed for testing as the search goes on to determine how a single elk on a farm near Aitkin was exposed to chronic wasting disease, killing it last summer. The newly condemned elk are in herds where the bull, known as Elk Read more…
Test results from 103 wild deer killed so far near an Aitkin County farm show no evidence of chronic wasting disease, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources said Tuesday. At least eight more deer from that 9-square-mile area remain to be tested for the incurable ailment that strikes deer and Read more…
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources officials estimate they collected about 4,700 samples for Chronic Wasting Disease tests during the firearms deer season, which opened Nov. 9. Last week, after most firearms seasons ended in northern Minnesota, the DNR had collected about 4,000 samples. An additional 1,000 samples were to be Read more…
Deer hunters submitted about 500 additional samples for chronic wasting disease tests during the second weekend of Minnesota’s firearms deer season, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The firearms deer season began Nov. 9. The DNR estimates that it has collected about 4,000 of the 5,000 to 6,000 Read more…
Deer hunters submitted about 3,500 samples for chronic wasting disease tests during the first weekend of Minnesota’s firearms deer season, according to the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. The DNR intends to collect between 5,000 and 6,000 total samples at selected registration stations across the state as part of an Read more…
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources used a state-of-the-art incinerator to dispose of remains from deer culled for chronic wasting disease testing in the Aitkin area. The device was developed by a Florida company for disposing of carcasses a well as wood and debris. It is located at the Mille Read more…
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced today that no positives were found in five additional chronic wasting disease test results from deer killed in the nine-square-mile Aitkin surveillance area. A total of 69 deer have been tested for CWD from the surveillance area, which surrounds a farm where a Read more…
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