CWD Information (pdf, 628kb)
Keep NJ CWD Free: A Guide For Hunters (pdf, 457kb)
Keep NJ CWD Free: A Guide For Butchers and Taxidermists (pdf, 414kb)
CWD Urine-Based Deer Lure Ban
Chronic Wasting Disease FAQs (pdf, 197kb)

Hunters May Not Bring Whole Deer Into New York
Hunters Should Be Aware of Enhanced CWD Protections in Pennsylvania

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a progressive and fatal neurologic disease affecting members of the Cervid family such as deer, elk, moose, and reindeer and is caused by an infectious protein called a prion. CWD results in emaciation, abnormal behavior, loss of bodily functions and death, and is easily spread from deer to deer. It poses a serious threat to New Jersey’s deer herds and eventually wears down and kills every infected animal.

CWD has so far been found in captive and wild deer in 26 states, four Canadian provinces, Norway, Finland, and South Korea, with the closest known occurrence to New Jersey in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Preventing CWD from entering New Jersey is the Division of Fish and Wildlife’s primary focus, and the Division aggressively monitors and tests for CWD in New Jersey’s deer herd.

Annual sampling of New Jersey deer harvested since 1998 have found no evidence of the disease. Based on those samples, if CWD was present in our state we are 99% confident it was in less than 1% of the adult deer at that time (without testing all of the animals in a population it is statistically impossible to say a disease is not there).