VIRGINIA CONFIRMS FIRST CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE IN A DEER
Hunters and wildlife biologists knew the day would come.
Still, last week’s announcement that Virginia’s first case of Chronic Wasting Disease had been confirmed brought shock.
“This is kind of scary,” said Rob Phillips, a Virginia Beach hunter who owns and hunts on land in Patrick County, just west of Martinsville.
Phillips probably doesn’t have to start panicking about deer in his county – which is on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Virginia’s first CWD-infected white-tailed deer was shot in November in Frederick County, less than a mile from the West Virginia state line – on the west side of the mountain range.
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