The State Game Commission’s latest report on Chronic Waste Disease in Pennsylvania’s deer population shows five cases detected from among 3,485 samples tested in Indiana County. Among our neighbors, Jefferson had ten cases, Cambria had nine, Clearfield had seven, and Westmoreland and Armstrong each had one case.
With a few weeks left to tabulate new cases, there have been 440 positive tests in Pennsylvania in 2023-24, up from 426 in ’22-’23. CWD testing begins its new monitoring cycle on July 1st of each year. Nearly ninety percent of the state’s Chronic Waste Disease cases have occurred in Bedford, Blair, Franklin, Fulton, and Huntingdon counties, where CWD is termed “established”.
Chronic Waste Disease is a fatal neurological disease caused by an abnormal protein in the brain of deer and elk. There is no known cure or vaccine.
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