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North and South Dakota Indian Tribes to Test for CWD
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7/21/2010
Wildlife officials are increasing the monitoring of chronic wasting disease along the North Dakota and South Dakota border.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Wildlife officials are increasing the monitoring of chronic wasting disease along the North Dakota and South Dakota border.
The North Dakota Game and Fish Department says a mule deer killed by a hunter last fall in Sioux County tested positive for the disease, a fatal malady of the nervous system in members of the deer family. It was the first case reported in the state.
Sioux County is near the South Dakota border.
Wildlife officials from the Dakotas and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will test hunter-harvested deer, elk and moose, road kills and sick-acting animals in the area where the diseased mule deer was killed last year.
