Chronic Wasting Disease

Welcome to the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance's web site.

This site is a joint project of the Boone and Crockett Club, Mule Deer Foundation, and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. These non-profit wildlife conservation organizations formed the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance in January 2002 to address CWD. Other organizations have since joined the Alliance.

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The mission of the CWD Alliance is to promote responsible and accurate communications regarding CWD, and to support strategies that effectively control CWD to minimize its impact on wild, free-ranging cervids including deer, elk, and moose.

The CWD Alliance and its partner organizations are committed to providing timely, scientifically accurate information regarding chronic wasting disease, its impacts on wildlife and humans, and recommendations for its control.

What's New:

Kansas : Three Northwest Kansas Deer Test Positive for CWD
Three Kansas white-tailed deer taken by hunters during the 2008 deer season have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in analysis of tissue samples collected in recent weeks by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. Read more...

Colorado : Elk Meat Recalled in Colo.; Wasting Disease Found
Consumers are being warned not to eat some elk meat sold at a recent farmers' market in Longmont. Read more...

West Virginia : Five Additional Deer Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease In Hampshire County, West Virginia
Preliminary test results indicate the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent was present in five hunter-harvested deer collected in Hampshire County during the 2008 deer firearms hunting season. Read more...

Illinois : IDNR Issues Reminder: Don’t feed Wild Deer
The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) is reminding Illinois residents and visitors to refrain from feeding wild deer and other wildlife in areas where wild deer are present. A ban on feeding wild deer was enacted in 2002 as part of the state’s continuing effort to limit the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the Illinois wild deer herd.
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Wisconsin : DNR completes health sampling of White-tail deer in northern Wisconsin
With over 8,400 samples collected a health check sampling of white-tail deer that focused on Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and Bovine TB in the DNR’s 18 county Northern Region has been completed. To obtain a statistically valid sample a total of 8,000 deer, about 500 per county, were needed. Read more...