Testing conducted during last year’s deer-gun season COLUMBUS, OH – For the sixth straight year, testing of Ohio’s deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative brain disease that affects elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer. According to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Read more
Testing conducted during last year’s deer-gun season COLUMBUS, OH – For the fifth year, testing of Ohio’s deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative brain disease that affects elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division Read more
Ohio wildlife officials are trying to keep a close eye on the growing number of deer farms and big-game hunting preserves around the state. A major worry is that Chronic Wasting Disease, which is killing deer and elk in western states, could spread to Ohio with captive deer being shipped Read more
For the fourth year in a row, testing of Ohio’s deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative brain disease that affects elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer. State officials collected samples from hunter-harvested deer during the deer-gun season that ran November 28-December 4 last Read more
COLUMBUS, OH – For the second year in a row, testing of Ohio’s deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative brain disease that affects elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer, according to the State officials collected samples from hunter-harvested deer during the deer-gun season, Read more
COLUMBUS – Testing of Ohio’s deer herd has found no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), a degenerative disease that affects elk, mule deer and white-tailed deer, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife. Test samples from deer brought by hunters to check stations during Read more
Early tests of high-risk Ohio deer show no traces of chronic wasting disease. Labs soon to perform more extensive tests REYNOLDSBURG – Everything will change for Dr. Sheila D. Grimes if she finds a pink-stained sample of tissue from a deer’s brain on her microscope slide. That will signal the Read more
WOOSTER — As Ohio hunters prowl the woods this week to make the most of deer-hunting season, animal-disease authorities are targeting an illness hidden in the brains of deer. Chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological condition that affects deer and elk, has not been found in Ohio. However, its recent Read more
Next month, technicians at the state’s Department of Agriculture lab outside Columbus will analyze tissue slices from the brains of 500 white-tailed deer killed by Ohio hunters in early December. Using high-powered microscopes and special stains, they’ll try to locate tiny, spongelike holes in the tissue — indications that an Read more
The disease that claimed hundreds of Ohio white-tailed deer in recent weeks has run its course, but hunters here and around the country still have reason to worry. EHD is epizootic hemorrhagic disease and spread by small, biting insects. Cold weather has arrived in southern Ohio, where EHD was prevalent, Read more