{"id":894,"date":"2022-01-10T02:14:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T02:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/?page_id=894"},"modified":"2022-08-26T11:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T15:58:46","slug":"chronic-wasting-disease-information","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/hunting\/chronic-wasting-disease-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Chronic Wasting Disease Information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/digest-hunting-2022-2023-page-46-deer-cwd.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CWD Information<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(pdf, 628kb)<br><a href=\"\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/cwd_hunters_guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Keep NJ CWD Free: A Guide For Hunters<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(pdf, 457kb)<br><a href=\"\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/cwd_butchers_taxidermists_guide.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Keep NJ CWD Free: A Guide For Butchers and Taxidermists<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(pdf, 414kb)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.njfishandwildlife.com\/cwd_urinelures.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CWD Urine-Based Deer Lure Ban<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/cwdQandA.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(pdf, 197kb)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dec.ny.gov\/outdoor\/8325.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Hunters May Not Bring Whole Deer Into New York<\/strong><\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.pa.gov\/Pages\/game-commission-details.aspx?newsid=494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Hunters Should Be Aware of Enhanced CWD Protections in Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a progressive and fatal neurologic disease affecting members of the Cervid family such as deer, elk, moose, and reindeer and is caused by an infectious protein called a prion. CWD results in emaciation, abnormal behavior, loss of bodily functions and death, and is easily spread from deer to deer. It poses a serious threat to New Jersey&#8217;s deer herds and eventually wears down and kills every infected animal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CWD has so far been found in captive and wild deer in 26 states, four Canadian provinces, Norway, Finland, and South Korea, with the closest known occurrence to New Jersey in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Preventing CWD from entering New Jersey is the Division of Fish and Wildlife&#8217;s primary focus, and the Division aggressively monitors and tests for CWD in New Jersey&#8217;s deer herd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Annual sampling of New Jersey deer harvested since 1998 have found no evidence of the disease.<\/strong>&nbsp;Based on those samples, if CWD was present in our state we are 99% confident it was in less than 1% of the adult deer at that time (without testing all of the animals in a population it is statistically impossible to say a disease is not there).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/media\/images\/distribution-chronic-wasting-disease-north-america-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"386\" src=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/cwd_map_09-21.jpg\" alt=\"Distribution of CWD Map\" class=\"wp-image-895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/cwd_map_09-21.jpg 500w, https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/njfw\/cwd_map_09-21-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Distribution of CWD in North America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Video: How to Debone a Deer in the Field<\/strong>&nbsp;(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trcp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cwd-info.org\/shedding-light-on-chronic-wasting-disease-video-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronic Wasting Disease Videos<\/a>&nbsp;(Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance, CWD-INFO.ORG)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/cwd_samplings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronic Wasting Disease Sampling Information, 1997-2018<\/a>&nbsp;(pdf, 330kb) Updated February, 2019<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/cwd_sampling20-21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronic Wasting Disease Sampling, 2020-2021<\/a>&nbsp;(pdf, 660kb)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/cwd_responseplan13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronic Wasting Disease Response Plan 2013<\/a>&nbsp;(pdf, 223kb)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"\/njfw\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/cwdprionstudy06.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronic Wasting Disease Functional Prion Genotype Study, 2006<\/a>&nbsp;(pdf, 260kb)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on CWD visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwd-info.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance<\/a>&#8216;s web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CWD Information\u00a0(pdf, 628kb)Keep NJ CWD Free: A Guide For Hunters\u00a0(pdf, 457kb)Keep NJ CWD Free: A Guide For Butchers and Taxidermists\u00a0(pdf, 414kb)CWD Urine-Based Deer Lure BanChronic Wasting Disease FAQs\u00a0(pdf, 197kb) Hunters May Not Bring Whole Deer Into New YorkHunters Should Be Aware of Enhanced CWD Protections in Pennsylvania Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a progressive and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":37,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-894","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/894\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deptest.nj.gov\/njfw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}