A hunter-harvested mule deer from Cimarron County in Oklahoma’s Panhandle has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), and the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation (ODWC) has activated the CWD Response Plan jointly produced with the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. This latest CWD-positive deer was harvested about 3.5 miles west of Felt, near the location where Read more
Recent confirmation of a CWD-positive deer north of Felt has prompted the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation to expand the existing Selective Surveillance Area for chronic wasting disease in Cimarron County. Additional area has been added northwest of the original SSA. The new boundaries now stretch from the Oklahoma-New Mexico line near Read more
Jul 3, 2023 A second wild white-tailed deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Oklahoma. The deer was located about 15 miles east of Woodward in Woodward County after a landowner reported the deer behaving abnormally. Oklahoma’s first case of a wild deer infected with CWD was Read more
Jun 6, 2023 A white-tailed deer in the Oklahoma Panhandle has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). A Texas County landowner reported the deer to the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation after witnessing it behaving abnormally. The deer was recovered near Optima and testing was conducted. This marks the Read more
April 24, 2019JOINT RELEASE FROM THE OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD & FORESTRY AND THE OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION Chronic Wasting Disease Confirmed in One Farmed Oklahoma Elk OKLAHOMA CITY — An elk from a farmed herd in Lincoln County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), according to the Read more
For the fifth year in a row, all tests came back negative for chronic wasting disease from samples taken from the state’s wild deer herd. “This isn’t unexpected news, but it is always good to hear the official word,” said Mike Shaw, wildlife research supervisor for the Oklahoma Department of Read more
For the fourth year in a row chronic wasting disease was not discovered in the state’s wild deer herd. “It’s certainly good news for deer and deer hunters,” said Mike Shaw, wildlife research supervisor for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation. Personnel took brain samples from 1,000 deer and elk Read more
Wildlife officials are expanding their surveillance for chronic wasting disease in Oklahoma’s white- tailed deer herd as the brain-destroying illness continues to spread in other states. So far the incurable disease has not been found in Oklahoma’s wild deer. It was discovered in an Oklahoma County captive elk herd destroyed Read more