JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will begin testing a limited number of free-ranging white-tailed deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in areas of Linn and Macon Counties. The effort is part of the Department’s response to a recently confirmed case of CWD by the Missouri Department Read more
The Missouri Departments of Agriculture, Conservation and Health and Senior Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that a captive white-tailed deer in Linn County, Missouri has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). CWD is a neurological disease found in deer, elk and moose. “There is no Read more
The Conservation Department continues to test deer for the disease. JEFFERSON CITY-Renewed testing for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in 2007 turned up no evidence of the disease, but the Missouri Department of Conservation says it will continue stepped-up monitoring for two more years. CWD is a degenerative neurological malady that Read more
The Conservation Department continues to monitor Missouri’s deer herd for chronic wasting disease. JEFFERSON CITY-With firearms deer season approaching, the Missouri Department of Conservation is asking citizens to report any sick deer they see. The Conservation Department always is interested in reports of sick deer, because such reports help the Read more
The second year of testing wild deer turned up no cases of the disease. JEFFERSON CITY–For the second year in a row, laboratory tests found no Missouri deer with chronic wasting disease (CWD). The Missouri Department of Conservation says it plans to continue testing deer taken in this year’s hunting Read more
The second year of testing wild deer turned up no cases of the disease. JEFFERSON CITY–For the second year in a row, laboratory tests found no Missouri deer with chronic wasting disease (CWD). The Missouri Department of Conservation says it plans to continue testing deer taken in this year’s hunting Read more
The second year of testing turned up no cases of the disease in Missouri. JEFFERSON CITY– For the second year in a row, laboratory tests found no Missouri deer with chronic wasting disease (CWD). The Missouri Department of Conservation says it plans to continue testing deer taken in this year’s Read more
CWD Monitoring Sites at Deer Check Stations. Entire heads not needed this year, but procedure will make taxidermy difficult. JEFFERSON CITY — Hunters in 30 counties around Missouri will be asked to take part in the second year of systematic testing for chronic wasting disease (CWD). Conservation officials say they Read more
The state Conservation Department is asking deer hunters in 30 counties to take part in the second year of testing for chronic wasting disease. Like last year, the department is trying to gather samples from 200 deer in each of the counties. Participation in the program by hunters is voluntary. Read more
Chronic wasting disease was not detected in almost 6,000 test samples taken from hunter-killed deer in Missouri last fall, officials announced today. The brain-wasting disease is similar to mad cow disease and has posed major problems for several states where it has been found in deer and elk, both free Read more