PLYMOUTH, WI (WTAQ) – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirms a wild deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Sheboygan County.
The CWD-positive deer was an adult doe harvested during the 2019 archery deer season in Plymouth, within 10 miles of adjacent Fond du Lac County.
It was tested as a part of the DNR’s disease surveillance efforts.
It is the first wild deer that tested positive for CWD in Sheboygan County.
State law requires the DNR to enact a ban on baiting and feeding deer in counties or portions of counties within a 10-mile radius of a wild or farm-raised deer that tests positive for CWD or tuberculosis.
