The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources has completed its Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance and testing for the 2024-2025 deer season.
Fish and Wildlife reports said testing of 9,204 samples statewide found no new cases of the disease in wild deer.
Since 2002, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife has tested more than 60,000 deer and elk, with hunters providing most of the tissue samples for testing.
Outside the fall hunting season, the department also collects and tests samples from roadkill and sick or found dead deer reported throughout the year.
To date, Chronic Wasting Disease has been detected in Kentucky twice.
The first case was from a wild deer in Ballard County in November 2023, and more recently in October 2024 in a captive deer from a permitted facility in Breckinridge County.
