Chronic Wasting Disease has been confirmed in new areas of Uintah County this year. A news release from the Division of Wildlife Resources explains that chronic wasting disease is monitored in big game animals across Utah each fall during the general-season rifle deer hunts when check stations are set up to test harvested deer. Samples are sent to the Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory and the most recent results are now available. DWR biologists received 2,126 samples for chronic wasting disease testing, 1,479 of which were animals harvested by hunters. Of the total samples, 83 were confirmed positive for chronic wasting disease, and 46 of those samples were submitted by hunters. The majority of the positive cases were from northeastern and southeastern Utah. The Little Mountain/Pine Ridge/Dry Fork area of Uintah County had positive CWD cases for the first time last fall. For more details, visit wildlife.utah.gov/news.
