Officials with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife announced this week that Chronic Wasting Disease was confirmed in a wild deer harvested by a hunter earlier this hunting season in neighboring Pulaski County.
This is the second wild deer in Kentucky confirmed with CWD, an always-fatal neurologic disease that affects deer, elk and other species in the deer family.
There is no known cure or vaccine, and the disease is always fatal in infected animals. The disease is not known to be transmissible to people, but the CDC advises not consuming meat from deer that test positive for the disease.
