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Chronic Wasting Disease distribution in the United States by state and county (ver. 3.0, June 2025)

Metadata Updated: November 26, 2025

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal, contagious, neuro-degenerative disease affecting multiple members of the Family Cervidae. First detected in 1967, the disease has, as of April 2025, been documented in free-ranging and/or captive cervid populations in 36 states, five Canadian provinces, South Korea, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The data sheets provided here contain information on the known, available, documented distribution of CWD in the United States that is current as of April 2025. “CWD distribution by year maps.zip” contains maps showing chronic wasting disease distribution in North America prior to 2000 and yearly from 2004 to 2024 as documented at the end of each year.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date November 26, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from DOI USGS DCAT-US

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 12, 2025
Metadata Updated Date November 26, 2025
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Maintainer
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Data Last Modified 2025-06-30T00:00:00Z
Category geospatial
Public Access Level public
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Metadata Type geospatial
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