CWD CONTAINMENT: Expanded containment mandated in 
response to chronic wasting disease discovery in roadkill 
whitetail deer…we explain….ahead on Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

During its March meeting, the TPW Commissioners 
expanded the state’s chronic wasting disease (CWD) 
Panhandle Containment Zone. This action followed the 
discovery of CWD earlier this year in a roadkill white-
tailed deer.

TPW’s wildlife veterinarian, Dr. Bob Dittmar says: “The 
state’s wildlife disease management response… focuses 
on an early detection and containment strategy… 
designed to limit the spread of CWD from the affected 
area… and better understand the distribution and 
prevalence of the disease.”

The test positive roadkill was among more than 10-
thousand deer, elk and other susceptible exotic game 
animal samples…collected from a variety of sources by 
TPWD personnel… for CWD testing during the 2017-18 
collection year.  

Of the samples, more than 2-thousand came from 
roadkill. The rest were obtained through mandatory and 
voluntary hunter harvest submissions.

Since 2012 when the state first discovered the disease 
among mule deer, Texas has recorded 100 confirmed 
cases of CWD.  

Details about each CWD detection in Texas are available 
on TPWD’s web site.

The Wildlife Restoration program supports our series.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife…I’m Cecilia Nasti. 




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