‘One of the really fascinating things about this is the scrape testing. There were scrapes sampled in Claiborne County last year and prions were detected in the scrapes.’
Mississippi Clarion Ledger
Chronic wasting disease has been detected in deer in six additional Mississippi counties in recent months and among them is one that has been a source of controversy — Claiborne County.
“It’s kind of in the center of the county on the west side of (U.S.) 61,” said Russ Walsh, Wildlife chief of staff for the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. “It is between 61 and the (Mississippi) River and almost dead-center in the county.
“It was a real nice buck killed back in January, I believe. To our knowledge, it didn’t have clinical signs.”
The buck marked the first known case of CWD in the county, but not the county’s first brush with the disease.
CWD, Claiborne County and the commission on wildlife
Claiborne County includes land on both the east and west sides of the Mississippi and was added to the Issaquena CWD Management Zone in 2022 following the discovery of a CWD-positive deer in Louisiana that was within 10 miles of Claiborne County on the west side of the river.