Following the detection of Chronic Wasting Disease in a Tennessee deer just eight miles south of the Kentucky border back in September of last year, the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife activated its CWD Response Plan and intensified disease testing efforts in the western Kentucky surveillance zone as well as statewide.
With testing now complete, no Chronic Wasting Disease was found in testing 4,347 deer in the surveillance zone and 7,548 deer and elk total statewide, according to state wildlife officials.