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Wild deer tests positive for CWD in Oneida County

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a wild deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Oneida County, in the Crescent Township.

As required by law, the DNR said finding will renew Oneida County's existing baiting and feeding ban for another three years.

Additionally, the positive test will renew the two-year baiting and feeding ban in Langlade County.

The CWD-positive one-year-old doe was harvested on a disease surveillance permit issued within a 10-mile radius of the recent Lincoln County positive detection.

It is Oneida County's first CWD-positive wild deer.

“This Oneida County detection is a direct result of our surveillance efforts put in place in response to the Lincoln CWD positive,” said Eric Lobner, DNR Bureau Director for the Wildlife Management program. “We will continue to work with local communities to promote CWD surveillance and awareness in the area.”

In response to the detection of the new CWD positive deer, the DNR will take the following steps:

—Continue to work with the local County Deer Advisory Council members in disease surveillance around the positive location.

—Encourage reporting of sick deer.

—Sample vehicle-killed adult deer.

—Sample adult deer harvested under agricultural damage permits.

—Sample adult deer harvested under urban deer hunts in the area.

—Establish additional CWD sampling locations prior to the 2018 deer seasons.

 
 
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