The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources is alerting the public of a confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in an adult male deer legally harvested in Tazewell County.

The Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) is asking hunters from Virginia to help them in their efforts to monitor the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the deer population.

The proposed regulation is a two-week extension of the general firearms season to help slow the spread and transmission of Chronic Wasting Disease and reduce deer populations in Floyd, Montgomery and Pulaski Counties.

The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries is conducting mandatory Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) sampling on Saturday. CWD is a fatal neurological disease that affects deer. On Saturday, there are two “disease management” areas. If you kill a deer in these areas, you’ll need to comply with the sampling:Disease Management Area 1 Clarke, Frederick, Shenandoah and Warren counties Find a sampling location hereDisease Management Area 2 Culpeper, Madison and Orange counties Find a sampling location hereDGIF reminds hunters that whole deer carcasses killed within a disease management area cannot be transported out of that area. Also, the Centers for Disease Control recommends that all deer killed in areas known to be infected with CWD be tested prior to consumption.