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Northwest Wisconsin (WQOW) - For hunters in northwest Wisconsin, there are some different
regulations in place because of Chronic Wasting Disease. Last year, a deer with
CWD was discovered in the Shell
Lake area. The DNR says
they're asking hunters to bring in their deer for voluntary testing. Its goal
is to collect one thousand samples from deer killed within a ten mile radius of
where a sick deer was found last year. The DNR takes the lymph nodes out of the
deer, and then sends them to its lab for testing.
That's the spot where if
the deer has any type of disease, that's where it's going to show up probably
first. It's kind of like with humans. If somebody has cancer, you check the
lymph nodes. It usually shows up first there. So with CWD, that's where you'd
find it," says Mike Zechmeister, a DNR Wildlife Ecologist.
The DNR says
hunters have been very cooperative this weekend with the testing. The agency numbers
those samples for each individual deer, so hunters can find the test results
from their deer on their website. Along with the testing, baiting bans are also
in place in Burnett, Barron, Polk and Washburn counties.
