Hunters in sampling areas can take their harvested deer to a station, where employees will ask them questions about where the harvested deer was located and biologists remove a deer's lymph nodes for testing. "We take the presence of chronic wasting disease in Utah seriously and will continue to do extensive monitoring to stay on top of the disease and its prevalence in the state," said Ginger Stout, Utah's wildlife veterinarian, in a statement Wednesday. These stations rotate to allow for Utah biologists to sample deer in different locations to see if it has spread anywhere new, according to division officials. It's also why the division sets up stations where hunters can bring biologists harvested deer for chronic wasting disease testing. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there aren't any documented cases of chronic wasting disease transferring to humans but still advises against eating meat contaminated by a prion-caused disease like chronic wasting disease. The disease, to this point in the year, has been found in six hunting units across the state, mostly in eastern and central Utah. (Photo: Utah Division of Wildlife Resources)ĭata show there were a little more than a dozen cases of the disease found in deer during the 2020 fiscal year.
More than a 100 deer have been found to have the disease over that time. This map shows the location of confirmed chronic wasting disease cases in Utah from 2002 through the 2020 fiscal year.
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