BERRIN COUNTY, Ga. (WSAV) — A second deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Georgia, officials confirmed.
The four-and-a-half-year-old male deer was taken in Berrien County around 400 yards from the first CWD-positive deer’s harvest location.
The first positive case of chronic wasting disease in Georgia was confirmed in late January by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR). That sample was taken from a two-and-a-half-year-old male white-tailed deer from private property in Lanier County…