{"id":328340,"date":"2025-12-03T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328340\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:50:08","slug":"tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency-detects-cwd-in-decatur-county-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/328340\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency detects CWD in Decatur County | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) detected chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a hunter-harvested deer in Decatur County, Tennessee.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was the first positive case for Decatur County.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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During deer season, Tennessee state troopers say drivers are more likely to encounter deer on the road.\u00a0<\/p>\n

CWD affects deer, elk and other similar animals in the U.S.. The Centers for Disease Control describes CWD as a prion disease, which makes an animal sick and eventually leads to death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Decatur County is within the current CWD Management Zone, meaning wildlife feeding and carcass transportation restrictions are in place already, according to the TWRA.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now, hunters in the county can participate in the Earn-a-Buck Program by submitting antler-less deer for testing.<\/p>\n

CWD was first discovered in Arkansas in 2016, and was discovered in Tennessee in 2018. The TWRA is working to stop the spread of the disease within the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You can learn more about CWD in Tennessee on the TWRA’s website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) detected chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a hunter-harvested deer in Decatur County,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[166870,68086,68087,12267,1147,109237,44232,44241,17234,44230,166862,166857,7546,62939,62941,8871,166871,62940,166855,166863,166874,166869,166873,166872,79,166867,166856,44239,44234,166866,166854,166860,166861,166858,166865,2219,166859,166864,166868,166875,166877,166876,55167,201,68089],"class_list":["post-328340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animal-cannibalism","tag-animal-diseases","tag-animal-health","tag-animal-welfare","tag-animals","tag-chronic-wasting-disease","tag-environment-of-the-united-states","tag-environmental-agencies","tag-environmental-protection","tag-environmental-protection-agencies","tag-fisheries-agencies","tag-government-of-tennessee","tag-human-diseases-and-disorders","tag-human-animal-interaction","tag-humans-and-other-species","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-inflammatory-diseases-of-the-central-nervous-system","tag-issues-in-animal-ethics","tag-law-enforcement-agencies-of-tennessee","tag-law-enforcement-agencies-of-the-united-states","tag-neurodegenerative-disorders","tag-prions","tag-ruminant-diseases","tag-ruminants","tag-science","tag-slow-virus-diseases","tag-state-agencies-of-tennessee","tag-state-agencies-of-the-united-states","tag-state-environmental-protection-agencies-of-the-united-states","tag-state-governments-of-the-united-states","tag-state-law-enforcement-agencies-of-tennessee","tag-state-law-enforcement-agencies-of-the-united-states","tag-state-of-franklin","tag-state-wildlife-and-natural-resource-agencies-of-the-united-states","tag-states-of-the-confederate-states-of-america","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-law","tag-tennessee-wildlife-resources-agency","tag-transmissible-spongiform-encephalopathies","tag-ungulate-diseases","tag-unsolved-problems-in-biology","tag-unsolved-problems-in-neuroscience","tag-veterinary-medicine","tag-wildlife","tag-zoonoses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}