MEDFORD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) – A farm-raised deer on a deer farm in Taylor County tested positive for chronic wasting disease.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was notified by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection about the positive result. The detection is within 10 miles of the border of both Chippewa and Clark counties.
State law requires the DNR to enact a three-year baiting and feeding ban in counties where CWD has been detected and a two-year ban in adjoining counties within 10 miles of a CWD detection. If additional CWD cases are found during the lifetime of a baiting and feeding ban, the ban will renew for an additional two or three years.
Clark County already has a baiting and feeding ban in place from recent wild detections in the county. This county will not be impacted by the detection, as the existing ban is longer than the two-year ban that would otherwise result from this detection.
Baiting or feeding deer encourages them to congregate unnaturally around a shared food source where infected deer can spread CWD through direct contact with healthy deer or by leaving behind infectious prions in their saliva, blood, feces and urine.
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