It is Kentucky’s second confirmed case in a wild deer of the disease that affects white-tailed deer and elk

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Resources confirms Chronic Wasting Disease has been detected in a wild deer in Pulaski County.

Officials say the male deer was harvested by a hunter earlier this hunting season.

Fish and Wildlife says this is the second wild deer in Kentucky confirmed to have CWD, an always-fatal neurologic disease that impacts deer, elk and other species in the deer family.

The disease has previously been confirmed in a wild deer in Ballard County, officials say, in December 2023, along with nine deer from a captive cervid facility in Breckinridge County, with one in October 2024 and eight in August 2025.

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife says there is no

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