Ohio chronic wasting disease cases reached record levels during the 2025 season due to improved surveillance and testing efforts.

Ohio deer carcass movement rules protect whitetails from Chronic Wasting Disease by restricting transport out of the DSA.

Ohio deer hunters learn the typical Chronic Wasting Disease test turnaround timeline and sampling kiosk submission steps.

Ohio self-serve CWD sampling kiosks help hunters locate testing sites and comply with mandatory deer disease regulations.

Mandatory Chronic Wasting Disease testing rules for hunters in Ohio provide wildlife data for deer population management.

Ohio deer hunting regulations and mandatory Chronic Wasting Disease testing for the early gun season in specific counties.

Ohio deer hunters learn which counties border the Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Area and regulations for carcass movement.

Wyandot County prion detections and environmental factors explain why this region leads Ohio in Chronic Wasting Disease numbers.

Holmes County marked Ohio’s first chronic wasting disease case in 2014, prompting the department to establish a surveillance area.

Chronic Wasting Disease testing numbers and surveillance areas in Ohio show positive cases detected since 2014 in Holmes County.