Wisconsin DNR has received confirmation wild deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease in the West Allis metropolitan area of Milwaukee County

Baiting and feeding ban to begin for Milwaukee County after first positive CWD detection

Published by Central Office January 16, 2018

Contact(s): Dianne Robinson, DNR wildlife biologist, 262-424-9827; Kevin Mickelberg, DNR Southeast conservation warden captain, 262-818-1705

MADISON - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has received confirmation that a wild deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in the West Allis metropolitan area of Milwaukee County.

As required by law, this finding will establish a baiting and feeding ban for Milwaukee County effective Feb. 1, 2018. Milwaukee County is already classified as a CWD-affected county due to being adjacent to a county with a detection; however, because of this finding, a new three-year baiting and feeding ban will go into effect.

A 4-year-old buck displaying clinical symptoms of CWD was tested from an urban setting in West Allis. It is the first confirmed positive in Milwaukee County. To determine if the disease is present in other wild deer in the area, the DNR will conduct disease surveillance within a 10-mile radius around the positive location. Milwaukee metro sub-unit deer hunters are encouraged to submit adult deer harvested for CWD sampling during the remainder of the metro sub-unit season.

For more information regarding baiting and feeding regulations and CWD in Wisconsin, and how to have adult deer testing during the remainder of the metro sub-unit season, visit the department's website, dnr.wi.gov, and search keywords "bait" and "CWD sampling" respectively.

Last Revised: Tuesday, January 16, 2018

https://dnr.wi.gov/news/Weekly/Article/?id=4156

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2017

Governor Scott Walkers Apathy Condemns Wisconsin to a lifetime of Chronic Wasting Disease CWD TSE Prion aka Mad Deer Disease

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2017/12/governor-scott-walkers-apathy-condemns.html

Singeltary submission ;

Program Standards: Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program and Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer, Elk, and Moose

*** DOCUMENT ID: APHIS-2006-0118-0411

http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=APHIS-2006-0118-0411

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2014/03/docket-no-00-108-10-chronic-wasting.html

http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogspot.com/2018/01/michigans-chronic-wasting-disease.html

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