Chronic Wasting Disease Detected in Trinity County Deer Breeding Facility

The number for each county represents the number of deer received in the county from a CWD-positive deer breeding facility since 2018.
The number for each county represents the number of deer received in the county from a CWD-positive deer breeding facility since 2018.

— Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC) received confirmation of one case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a Trinity County deer breeding facility, marking the first detection in the county.

A two-year-old female white-tailed deer tested positive using postmortem testing conducted to meet CWD surveillance requirements for the facility. Texas A&M…