Where is CWD found?
The disease in mule deer was first identified in the 1960s and monitoring programs later identified the disease in deer and elk in northeastern Colorado and adjoining parts of Wyoming and Nebraska. At present, CWD is recognized in wild free-ranging deer and some elk in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Illinois and Utah. CWD is or was present in game-farmed elk in a number of states ( Montana, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Kansas, South Dakota, Colorado, Wisconsin and Nebraska), in Saskatchewan and, recently, in a single elk and a single white-tailed deer on game farms in Alberta. A Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) disease control program was initiated in 2000 to eradicate the disease on infected elk farms in Saskatchewan. Over 7500 animals were destroyed, with approximately 3% positive for CWD. The CFIA CWD program has now expanded to Alberta elk and deer farms. Since the fall of 2000, a number of mule deer and white-tailed deer harvested in Saskatchewan w
