SPOKANE INDIAN RESERVATION, Wash. – Officials from the Spokane Tribe Department of Natural Resources have announced the first suspected positive case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) on the Spokane Indian Reservation.
Reported to the Spokane Tribal Wildlife Program (STWP) on November 10, the detection came from a white-tailed deer harvested in the Drum Road area in late October. The Montana Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory in Bozeman processed the sample through enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) testing, which yielded a positive result.
STWP staff are collaborating with the lab to confirm the sample using a more definitive immunohistochemistry test. The hunter was notified, and the animal is being disposed of at the CWD disposal pit in the Wellpinit landfill…