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01-16-2003, 02:34 AM
January 13, 2003
Two more mule deer found to test positive for CWD
BY LARRY PORTER, OMAHA WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN - Two mule deer bucks killed by hunters this past fall tested positive for chronic wasting disease, bringing to 17 the number of wild deer in Nebraska that have been confirmed as having the always-fatal disease.
The two deer were both about 21/2 years old and were killed in areas where infected deer were killed earlier. All 17 deer that have tested positive were killed in the Panhandle.
One of the bucks was killed in the southwest corner of Kimball County. The other was killed in northern Sioux County.
They are the first positive tests from a total of 1,844 results that have been processed so far this year by the University of Nebraska's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. About 2,000 deer from central and western Nebraska remain to be tested.
All of the 846 deer tested from eastern Nebraska were negative, along with 305 deer tested that were killed by hunters in central Nebraska.
"A total of 693 deer have been tested from the Panhandle," said Bruce Morrison, assistant chief of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission's wildlife division.
A total of four infected deer have been killed in Kimball County since the first case of CWD in Nebraska's wild deer was discovered in 2000.
Two more mule deer found to test positive for CWD
BY LARRY PORTER, OMAHA WORLD-HERALD BUREAU
LINCOLN - Two mule deer bucks killed by hunters this past fall tested positive for chronic wasting disease, bringing to 17 the number of wild deer in Nebraska that have been confirmed as having the always-fatal disease.
The two deer were both about 21/2 years old and were killed in areas where infected deer were killed earlier. All 17 deer that have tested positive were killed in the Panhandle.
One of the bucks was killed in the southwest corner of Kimball County. The other was killed in northern Sioux County.
They are the first positive tests from a total of 1,844 results that have been processed so far this year by the University of Nebraska's Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. About 2,000 deer from central and western Nebraska remain to be tested.
All of the 846 deer tested from eastern Nebraska were negative, along with 305 deer tested that were killed by hunters in central Nebraska.
"A total of 693 deer have been tested from the Panhandle," said Bruce Morrison, assistant chief of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission's wildlife division.
A total of four infected deer have been killed in Kimball County since the first case of CWD in Nebraska's wild deer was discovered in 2000.