A new chronic wasting disease case in Wisconsin’s La Crosse County has triggered a three-year feeding and baiting ban.

A new case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been confirmed in La Crosse County, Wisconsin, the first in the county, prompting a three-year ban on deer feeding and baiting, extending the existing restriction. The infected adult buck was found near the Monroe and Vernon County borders. Wisconsin’s DNR says feeding and baiting increase disease spread by drawing deer together. The state continues to urge hunters to test deer and follow protocols to slow CWD’s spread, a fatal neurological disease causing weight loss, behavioral changes, and death in deer and other cervids.