Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was recently detected in a whitetail buck shot in Kaufman County. This is the first positive detection of CWD in the county, according to reports from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
The buck, harvested at a high-fence release site located in a CWD Surveillance Zone, was delivered to a Hunt County CWD check station in compliance with surveillance zone requirements. TPWD and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) received notice of the CWD-positive test result from the Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory (TVMDL) on Nov. 14.
Prior to this detection, the high-fence release site was identified as a “trace herd” property to the Hunt County CWD-positive deer breeding facility reported on March 31, 2021, meaning deer were transferred from the Hunt County facility to this release site prior to discovery of CWD in that facility, the TPWD report says. Plans to conduct additional CWD investigations are underway.
