to share information on the disease and its impact.“The outreach effort is meant to generate discussion, educate folks about the disease, current CWD regulations, and what we can do to manage the disease,” TPWD Big Game Program Director Alan Cain said in a news release. “We have an obligation to current and future generations of Texans to be good stewards our native deer species.
TPWD says there are no known cases of a human becoming infected with the disease, but hunters should test their harvested species for the disease before consuming them. Earlier this month, TPWD said the most recent cases involved a dead 2-year-old white-tailed doe in Frio County and a dead 3-year-old white-tailed buck in Zavala County. The animals were in deer-breeding facilities.