The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture has confirmed that a Taylor County deer farm that tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease last year has been depopulated. Of the 238 animals tested as a result of the depopulation, 61 had the disease.
In 2021, a six-year-old white-tailed doe tested positive for CWD at the 22-acre farm. DATCP immediately quarantined all animals on the premises, meaning no live animals or whole carcasses were permitted to leave the property.
The farm owner will get federal indemnity for the depopulated animals and the operation will not be permitted to hold cervids for five years.
CWD is a fatal, neurological disease of deer, elk and moose caused by an infectious protein called a prion that affects the animal's brain, and testing for CWD is typically only performed after the animal's death.
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