Deer hunters in three more counties now under heightened monitoring for chronic wasting disease

As of this month, Kentucky Fish and Wildlife officials have expanded the state’s Chronic Wasting Disease surveillance zone to include Henderson, Union and Webster counties.

The expansion was put in place after a CWD-positive deer was confirmed just across the river in Posey County, Indiana.

The Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Commission added the three counties to a growing list of western Kentucky areas under heightened disease monitoring. The original zone already included Ballard, Breckinridge, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hardin, Hickman, Marshall, Meade and McCracken counties.

The expansion means hunters in the added counties are now under strict rules including mandatory testing, carcass transport restrictions and a ban on rehabilitating deer.

Hunters in the heightened monitoring counties must submit their deer for testing during the first three days of modern gun season, Nov. 8–10, by visiting a staffed check station or using a CWD sample drop-off site.