{"id":605168,"date":"2026-04-25T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605168\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T07:09:09","slug":"dozens-of-deer-test-positive-for-deadly-disease-across-6-ohio-counties-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/605168\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of deer test positive for deadly disease across 6 Ohio counties \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">OHIO \u2014 A portion of white-tailed deer that were taken during the 2025-26 hunting season tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources\u2019 (ODNR) <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiodnr.gov\/discover-and-learn\/safety-conservation\/about-ODNR\/news\/cwd-detected-in-deer-from-six-counties-during-2025-26-hunting-season\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/ohiodnr.gov\/discover-and-learn\/safety-conservation\/about-ODNR\/news\/cwd-detected-in-deer-from-six-counties-during-2025-26-hunting-season\">Division of Wildlife<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Just over 6,600 deer were tested for CWD, with 40 positive samples being detected in Allen, Crawford, Hancock, Hardin, Marion, and Wyandot counties. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The neurological disease is fatal to white-tailed deer and other similar species, according to ODNR. Once infected, there is no cure. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">There is no strong evidence that CWD is transmissible to humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OHIO \u2014 A portion of white-tailed deer that were taken during the 2025-26 hunting season tested positive for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-605168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605168","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=605168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}