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Indiana suspends deer importation from PA

 

A week after the first case of chronic wasting disease was identified in Pennsylvania; the Indiana State Board of Animal Health (BOAH) has suspended the importation of farmed deer, elk, and moose from the state.  BOAH veterinarians are in the process of identifying and locating deer imported into Indiana from the Adams County, PA facility where the CWD-positive 3 year-old farm-raised deer was housed.  Deer that are imported into the state are required to be tested for the disease.

Indiana created a monitoring program to detect the presence of CWD in 2002.  Since its inception more than 12,200 deer have been tested and none have tested positive for CWD.

Pennsylvania is the 23^rd state to have a confirmed cased of CWD and the 13^th state to have it only in a captive deer herd.