Statewide Iowa — The Iowa Department of Natural Resources reports 36 positive chronic wasting disease tests from some five-thousand deer samples this hunting season.
The DNR’s Tyler Harms oversees the deer management program.
He says they will now do additional sample testing in Greene and Fremont County moving forward. Harms says they do with other counties that have had positive deer — and those tests give them an idea of the level of CWD.
Harms says Iowa’s efforts to try and keep the disease in check are working.
Harms says the best thing you can do is to keep hunting and keep submitting samples for testing.
He says everyone can help by NOT putting out feed for deer.
Harms says hunters should properly dispose of the deer carcasses to help prevent the spread of the disease.
Counties with positive deer and year detected:
Allamakee: 72 (2013)
Appanoose: 3 (2020)
Clayton: 29 (2016)
Decatur: 1 (2019)
Dubuque: 3 (2018)
Fayette: 2 (2019)
Fremont: 1 (2021)
Greene: 1 (2021)
Jackson: 2 (2020)
Wayne: 22 (2017)
Winneshiek: 10 (2019)
Woodbury: 2 (2019)
