The service prioritized jurisdictions that have detected CWD or that border CWD-endemic areas and have either launched surveillance programs or plan to do so.
The dogs were able to identify infected deer through feces samples.
The case raises the number of states with documented chronic wasting disease in deer and other cervids to 35.
The infection in a 2-year-old doe was found during mandatory postmortem CWD surveillance testing.
The 2-year-old white-tailed doe tested positive during required CWD postmortem surveillance.
A wild deer exhibiting signs of CWD tested positive for the fatal prion disease in mid-March.
The 4- to 5-year-old doe, which had shown signs of illness, was found in Spring Lake, near the Dunn and St. Croix county borders.
Further investigation revealed 3 additional deer with chronic wasting disease.
The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources confirmed the fatal prion disease in a buck harvested by a hunter in November 2023.
The 3-year-old buck was found dead in the town of Wautoma, within 10 miles of the Marquette and Portage county borders.
Four white-tailed deer tested positive for the fatal neurodegenerative disease.
Craighead County is in northeastern Arkansas, abutting Missouri and not far from the Tennessee border.
CWD prions (misfolded proteins) were found in a county scrape, or area that bucks defoliate by pawing, in June.
The BC Wildlife Federation reports 2 cases of the fatal neurodegenerative prion disease in a male mule deer and a female white-tailed deer in the southeastern part of the province.
The disease was confirmed in a buck mule deer in Deer Hunt Area 90 in December.
The CWD positive is the first at Sheboygan County farm, though the disease had been detected in the area's wild deer.
The fatal neurodegenerative infection was confirmed in a hunter-harvested cow elk in Elk Hunt Area 28 in late December.
During the next 5 years, the farm won't be able to hold cervids—members of the deer family—and must maintain fences and allow routine inspections.
For the first time, CWD was found in Rock, Blaine, and Thomas counties, all in the north-central part of the state.
The sample was obtained from a taxidermist and tested as part of proactive surveillance.
The case was in a cow elk in Elk Hunt Area 122 harvested by a hunter in early November.
The case was in a 2-year-old whitetail buck harvested by a hunter on a low-fenced property and tested through surveillance sampling.
The fatal prion disease has now been confirmed in 32 states.
Utah officials say the prion disease, which is found in deer and other cervids, appears to be spreading in the state.
The state had recently announced the first detections in two other counties, including one that neighbors the newly affected location.
