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Chronic Wasting Disease Identified in Two Mecosta County Farmed Deer
January 20, 2017
LANSING, Mich., Jan. 20 -- The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development issued the following news release:

Chronic wasting disease was confirmed this week in two female deer from a Mecosta County deer farm. CWD is a fatal neurological disease that affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk and moose. This is the second time the disease has been found in a farmed deer facility in Michigan. In 2008, a white-tailed deer from a Kent County deer farm tested positive.

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