A study by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources of chronic wasting disease in deer and elk has just been released. According to a news release, data consists of 92-hundred samples. Lisa Jackson is a public information officer for the department.
“With all the testing we did throughout the last year, especially the deer hunting season, there are zero new cases of CWD, which is chronic wasting disease.”
Jackson said no new positives is good news for the animals, hunters and the entire state.
“A lot of small communities that don't have big tourist attractions or convention hotels, they rely on the hunting seasons to bring people in who might camp or stay in a B and B or buy gas or groceries.”
According to the department, chronic wasting disease has been found in Kentucky twice, with the most recent case in Breckinridge County last October.
