Quarantine: CWD confirmed in Michigan farm deer

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Sick deer in captivity in Kent County prompts quarantine

BY ERIC SHARP • FREE PRESS OUTDOORS WRITER •

    A whitetail deer at a captive facility in Kent County has been confirmed to have chronic wasting disease. The fatal illness in its latter stages has symptoms similar to mad cow disease but affects only cervids like moose, elk and deer, state officials said Monday.
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The Michigan Agriculture Department placed an immediate quarantine on all of the 580 captive cervid facilities in Michigan, and Becky Humphries, director of the Department of Natural Resources, said she would announce a total ban on the baiting and feeding of wild deer in the Lower Peninsula as of today.

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CWD prompts immediate baiting ban in Michigan

In the wake of the discovery of Chronic Wasting Disease in a whitetail deer at a facility in Kent County, the Michigan DNR has issued an immediate ban on all deer and elk baiting and feeding in the Lower Peninsula, which could last the entirety of the upcoming deer season.