Tuesday, November 18, 2014

CWD Surveillance Underway in Virginia Containment Area

Richmond, VA - The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries (DGIF) would like to ask for your continued support in our surveillance and management of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Chronic wasting disease has been detected in Virginia in seven deer in Frederick County. In addition the continued existence of the disease nearby in Hampshire and Hardy Counties, West Virginia, and Allegany County, Maryland, remain a concern.

As in the past, the entire CWD Containment Area-located in Frederick County and the City of Winchester west of I-81, and that portion of Shenandoah County west of I-81 and north of Route 675 (see map at www.dgif.virginia.gov/wildlife/diseases/cwd/) is a mandatory sampling area for any deer killed on November 15, 22 and 29, 2014. Any deer, or at least the head and neck of any deer, killed in the Containment Area on these three days must be brought to a designated sampling station (listed below).

* Cather's Market, 2765 Northwestern Pike, Winchester