SOCIAL CIRCLE β The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced recently that Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been detected in a road-killed deer sampled for routine surveillance in Holmes County, Fla., a first for that state.
CWD has not been detected in the state of Georgia, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resourcesβ Wildlife Resources Division. The department is prepared and will work diligently to implement its CWD response protocol if the disease is ever detected in Georgia, DNR officials vowed. The department has conducted annual surveillance for CWD since 2002.
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