The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has begun its active surveillance for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The Department has been sampling wild and captive deer for CWD since 2002. However, in 2005, the discovery of CWD in deer from Hampshire County, West Virginia, approximately 10 miles from Read more
Richmond, VA — Effective September 1, a regulation making it illegal to feed deer will go into effect statewide. The prohibition runs through the first Saturday in January. This regulation does NOT restrict the planting of crops such as corn and soybeans, wildlife food plots, and backyard or schoolyard habitats. Read more
RICHMOND, Va., – The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) has good news concerning the results of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) testing in a surveillance area that included parts of western and northern Shenandoah, Frederick, Loudoun and Clark counties. More than 550 samples from white-tailed deer collected this Read more
Winchester, VA — The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is requesting continued assistance from deer hunters with the Department’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts. The Department is making progress on collecting 550 deer heads for CWD testing from a 1,190 square mile area, but additional samples are Read more
Winchester, VA — The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is requesting assistance from deer hunters with the Department’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts. The Department will be collecting about 550 deer heads for CWD testing from a 1,190 square mile area including most of western Shenandoah County, Read more
Richmond, VA — The Board of Game and Inland Fisheries passed at their October 27, 2005 meeting a regulation that prohibits the importation or possession of whole deer carcasses or specified parts of carcasses originating from a state or Canadian province in which Chronic Wasting Disease has been found in Read more
Richmond, VA — The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) will be holding public information meetings to provide an overview of the Department’s response to the report in September of the first confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a white-tailed deer in West Virginia. The deer Read more
With the fall 2004 deer season just about to begin, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) is requesting that Virginia’s more than 260,000 deer hunters and the general public be on the lookout for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) “suspects.” CWD “suspect” animals are defined as deer or Read more
Richmond, VA – Samples collected from 1,114 Virginia deer during 2002 have all tested negative for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) according to representatives of the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF). The Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study in cooperation with the school of veterinary medicine at the University Read more
RICHMOND, VA – In October 2002, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF) initiated a surveillance and monitoring program for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in free-ranging white-tailed deer. “Nearly 75 percent of the samples have been tested and CWD has not been detected in any of them. We Read more