chronic wasting disease

The appearance of chronic wasting disease has prompted the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to increase deer surveillance in southwest Indiana in the next hunting season.

A Senate bill, SB 32, aims to make Indiana’s deer more genetically resilient to chronic wasting disease. It’s an incurable illness in deer that causes neurological problems, much like mad cow disease.

Other bills heard by the Senate Natural Resources Committee address invasive plant species and chronic wasting disease in deer.