Richmond, VA — The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in an adult female deer in Page County. This marks the first confirmed case of CWD in the county. Page County has been included in Disease Management Area 2 (DMA2) for several years due Read more
Date: March 24, 2025Contact: Andrew Bentley, 703 361-1339 MANASSAS, VA — During recent white-tailed deer reduction operations and subsequent disease sampling, one deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) at Manassas National Battlefield Park. The animal was from the Prince William County, Virginia portion of the park. This is Read more
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) has confirmed chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a 2.5-year-old male deer legally harvested in southwestern Montgomery County. The deer was brought to a taxidermist in late November 2020 and DWR obtained the sample in January as part of the Department’s proactive statewide CWD Read more
As a result of the Department of Wildlife Resources’ (DWR) 2020 – 2021 chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts, CWD was detected for the first time in Rappahannock County. The affected adult buck was harvested during the latter half of the regular firearms season. DWR is grateful to all cooperating Read more
This was posted to Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources Facebook page on 23 DEC 2020. CWD has been confirmed for the first time in a hunter-harvested deer from Madison County. This male deer was harvested during the regular firearms season in the eastern part of Madison County. The Department of Read more
Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources posted to their Facebook page on 18 Nov 2020 at 7:37 AM EST the following post: As a result of the DWR’s ongoing chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts, a hunter-harvested CWD-positive deer was recently confirmed in Loudoun County, less than 10 miles from the Read more
Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was confirmed by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) in 14 deer in Frederick County and two deer in Shenandoah County during the 2017 deer hunting season. Fifteen of the deer were harvested by hunters and one deer was killed by a vehicle. Read more
RICHMOND, VA — Three new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) were detected in the northwestern corner of Virginia during the 2014 hunting season. For the first time, CWD was detected in Shenandoah County; a 2.5 year-old buck that was killed by a vehicle was sampled very close to the Read more
Two new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) were detected in Frederick County during the 2013 hunting season. One deer, a 2.5 year old doe, was killed on November 30, 2013, in close proximity to the cluster of five CWD-positive deer harvested in Virginia since 2009. Additionally, a 1.5 year Read more
RICHMOND, VA- Not unexpectedly, two new cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) have been detected very close to where CWD-infected deer were found in 2009 and 2010. Both deer – a 4.5 year old buck and 1.5 year old doe – were killed by a hunter in November 2011 in Read more