Nine more deer added to tally of CWD positive whitetails at Houston County farm
The farm first detected CWD in a 2½-year-old white-tailed deer in October 2020.
Minnesota Board of Animal Health
CWD confirmed in Houston County farmed deer herd
The farm is located within the designated CWD endemic area in southeastern Minnesota and the herd enclosure was double-fenced in 2017.
Investigation leads to additional CWD positive deer on Pine County farm
The ongoing chronic wasting disease investigation of farms tied to the Douglas County detection first reported in December 2019 has led to a CWD-confirmed doe on a Pine County farm. The herd in Pine County was being investigated because it provided animals to the Douglas County herd in the past, including the CWD positive doe that initiated the disease investigation.
Midge-borne virus causes deaths of wild deer in Stearns County
The DNR suspects several deer in the St. Stephen area have recently died from EHD. Tests from two of the deer were positive for EHD; other deer were too decomposed to test.
Seven CWD-positives from Crow Wing County deer farm depopulation
Another 13 of the 102 deer were too decomposed to allow for successful testing.
All deer ‘depopulated’ from CWD-positive Crow Wing County deer farm
All CWD-positive deer farms in the state are now empty.
Deer farm infected with CWD in 2016 identifies additional cases
Chronic wasting disease was detected in four harvested samples from farmed deer at a quarantined farm in Crow Wing County.
EHD detected in Minnesota deer for first time
Six of seven animals in a small herd of captive white-tailed deer in Goodhue County died of the disease earlier this month.
Samples positive for CWD from depopulated Winona County deer farm
All seven of the remaining white-tailed deer in the herd were harvested, sampled, and found to have the disease affecting deer and elk.
Second deer from Winona County farm tests positive for CWD
CWD was also detected in a 3-year-old white-tailed buck last month at the deer farm.
Chronic wasting disease discovered in Winona County farm deer
Minnesota Board of Animal Health confirmed results with the USDA, has already quarantined the herd and started disease investigation.
Disease not detected in latest round of CWD tests for farmed deer herd in Crow Wing County
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Chronic wasting disease was not detected in deer tissue samples from Minnesota’s only currently quarantined farmed deer herd, in Crow Wing County, according to the latest test results involving the herd. The Minnesota Board of Animal Health quarantined the herd in December 2016 when two white-tailed deer tested positive for CWD. When the herd was quarantined, it…
Wright County white-tailed deer herd tests negative for CWD
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Board of Animal Health has lifted a quarantine in place since May 15 following the depopulation and testing of a chronic wasting disease-exposed Wright County white-tailed deer herd. CWD was not detected in any of the 30 white-tailed deer samples collected. The herd was initially placed under quarantine because the Board traced animal movements from…
Stearns County deer herd released from quarantine after negative CWD tests
Herd was part of farmed deer and elk disease investigation.
Four more farmed white-tailed deer test positive for CWD
Part of disease tracing effort reaching back to 2016 Crow Wing County case.
CWD confirmed at second Minnesota deer farm
Female white-tailed deer tests positive for the disease near Dassel in Meeker County in southeastern Minnesota, making it three farm deer to test positive in the last month
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