JEFFERSON CITY Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) reports that one deer recently harvested by hunters in north-central Missouri has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), which is fatal to deer. The adult buck was harvested in northwest Macon County, where five previous cases of CWD have been found since early 2012
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JEFFERSON CITY Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) has collected approximately 1,700 tissue samples from deer harvested during the fall archery and firearms deer seasons by hunters in MDC’s Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Containment Zone in north-central Missouri. The CWD Containment Zone consists of Adair, Chariton, Linn, Macon, Randolph and Sullivan counties, which [...]

Conservation Commission approves suspension of issuing permits for new deer breeders and big-game hunting facilities
Action is part of MDC efforts to work with stakeholders on limiting spread of CWD
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – At its Aug. 24 meeting in Jefferson City, the Missouri Conservation Commission approved changes to the Wildlife Code of Missouri that indefinitely suspend [...]

Open houses will be held in six counties in and around where CWD has been found.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will hold six informational open houses for the public in August in communities around where Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been found in north-central Missouri. Each open house will begin [...]

MDC testing of free-ranging deer results in five total cases of CWD with all found in same area.
JEFFERSON CITY Mo – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) received final test results today from 656 tissue samples taken from free-ranging deer harvested earlier this year. Results included three CWD-positives with two from adult does and one [...]

MDC needs hunter help with CWD sampling of harvested deer
Conservation Department asks deer hunters to allow MDC to collect tissue samples from deer harvested in north-central Missouri area for chronic-wasting-disease testing.
JEFFERSON CITY Mo – As part of its ongoing efforts to monitor Missouri’s free-ranging deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Missouri Department of Conservation [...]

According to news released October 20, a captive deer with CWD has been found in Missouri this year, this time in Macon County in north central Missouri. Macon County is about 50 miles north of Columbia.
A captive deer was found in 2010 in Linn County, also in north Missouri. Both deer were discovered during [...]

(Jo note -There are deer in the Ozarks, but we know a lot of our readers hunt “corn fed deer” in north Missouri.
MDC seeks hunter help with CWD surveillance Nov. 13-14.)
As part of it ongoing efforts to monitor Missouri’s free-ranging deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) is asking hunters [...]

The Missouri Conservation Department has in place new safeguards to protect Missouri’s deer herd against chronic wasting disease. An MDC news release issued today gives details.
By Bill Graham, MDC
Missouri residents who hunt in other states should be aware of a new regulation regarding chronic wasting disease, which sets rules for transporting harvested antlered game into [...]

he Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) will begin testing a limited number of free-ranging white-tailed deer for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in areas of Linn and Macon Counties. The effort is part of the Department’s response to a recently confirmed case of CWD by the Missouri Department of Agriculture (MDA) in a captive white-tailed deer [...]