Where Is The Disease Found?
CWD Map, click to enlarge In the mid-1970s, chronic wasting disease traveled to Canada in infected mule deer brought from a park in Colorado. Now the disease infects deer and elk on 39 game ranches in Saskatchewan and Alberta. By the mid-1980s, the disease had spread from captive-farmed herds to free ranging wild deer and elk in the northeastern part of Colorado and southeastern Wyoming. In 1997, chronic wasting disease was found in a farmed herd in South Dakota. Since then, additional infected herds have been found in South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Montana, Kansas, Minnesota and Colorado. In the spring of 2001, chronic wasting disease was discovered in free-ranging deer in the southwestern corner of Nebraska and also in two wild mule deer in Saskatchewan. These were the first cases ever discovered in wild Canadian animals. The first incidence of chronic wasting disease in wild deer east of the Mississippi River was the discovery of the disease in Wisconsin. In late February 2002, t
