Lancaster County's Chronic Wasting Disease Quarantine Zone Shrinks

The Pennsylvania Game Commission has reduced Disease Management Area 4, which covered parts of Lancaster, Berks, and Lebanon counties, in an effort to contain chronic wasting disease. The area has been reduced after five consecutive years without any further detections of the disease. However, chronic wasting disease continues to spread in other parts of Pennsylvania, with one wild deer found with the disease east of the Susquehanna River. The Game Commission is urging hunters to report any tagged or collared deer they shoot in affected areas, and is increasing doe tag allocations in certain Wildlife Management Units to reduce deer populations and combat the spread of the disease.