Can Dogs Detect Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Deer?
In an innovative twist, dogs are now at the forefront of battling Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Pennsylvania’s deer and elk.
In an innovative twist, dogs are now at the forefront of battling Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Pennsylvania’s deer and elk.
If you hunt deer in a zone where chronic wasting disease has been found, we recommend you submit every harvested deer for CWD testing.
Our limited understanding of the history of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) only goes back to the 1960’s in Colorado where a captive deer at a research facility became the first animal where the disease was detected. Read that sentence again.