Chronic Wasting Disease Spreading

GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says chronic wasting disease has been found in a new elk hunt area in the south-central part of the state.

The agency's wildlife disease laboratory in Laramie confirmed the presence of the disease in a bull elk harvested on Oct. 7 near Deep Creek, about 15 miles northeast of Baggs.

Elk hunt area 21 overlaps with deer hunt area 82 where Game and Fish documented CWD in 2002.

Game and Fish personnel statewide continue to collect samples of deer, elk and moose through hunter field checks and at chronic wasting disease sampling stations.

Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease in deer, elk and moose.