Colorado Parks and Wildlife will conduct mandatory testing for chronic wasting disease during hunting season in specific game management units as part of efforts to control the spread of the disease.
CPW will send letters to Colorado rifle season deer (buck and doe) hunters who have been selected for mandatory CWD testing. Mandatory and voluntary sampling is critical for data collection about this disease. For a complete list of this year’s mandatory game management units, see pages 20 to 29 of the 2019 Colorado Big Game Brochure.
CWD is a prion disease that affects Colorado’s deer, elk and moose. The disease course generally lasts two to three years and is always fatal. Although there has been no evidence that CWD has yet been transmitted to humans, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with CPW, recommend hunters not eat the meat of a CWD-infected animal.
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