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Wyoming's Horse Creek becomes the 4th elk feeding ground in the state to test positive since January, and Louisiana's Catahoula Parish reports the first case in wild deer outside of Tensas Parish.
Grant County, in the northeast part of the state, was added to the state's CWD containment area in 2015 because it is near other counties with CWD-positive cases.
Elk Hunt Area 93 is bordered by CWD-positive elk hunt areas 87 and 92 in the northwest part of the state.
Washtenaw County is in the southeastern part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula and is home to Ann Arbor.
The county is in the west-central part of Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
Kaufman County is in the northeastern part of the state, just outside of Dallas.
Baiting and feeding encourage deer to congregate around a shared food source, risking the transmission of CWD through direct contact or environmental contamination.
The county is in southwestern Indiana, on the border with Illinois and Kentucky, both of which are CWD-positive.
The two adult female elk were found dead in January and early February, respectively, at the Dell Creek feeding ground.
The severely emaciated deer was found dead on private property located more than 10 miles away from any other CWD-positive cases.
