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Volume 32, Number 4—April 2026

Dispatch

Chronic Wasting Disease in Farmed Cervids, South Korea, 2001–2024

Young Pyo Choi, Yu-Ran Lee, Hoo Chang Park, Yoon Hee Lee, Gordon Mitchell, In-Soon RohComments to Author , and Hyun-Joo SohnComments to Author 
Author affiliation: Korea Brain Research Institute, Daegu, South Korea (Y.P. Choi); World Organisation for Animal Health Reference Laboratory for Chronic Wasting Disease, Gimcheon, South Korea (Y.-R. Lee, H.C. Park, Y.H. Lee, I.-S. Roh, H.-J. Sohn); National and World Organisation for Animal Health Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and Chronic Wasting Disease, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (G. Mitchell)

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Annual CWD prevalence in farmed cervids, South Korea, 2001–2024. A) All cervids; B) red deer; C) elk; D) sika deer. Prevalence (%) was calculated as no. CWD-positive cervids/nationwide farmed cervid population for each species per year. Population data for 2024 was not available, so 2023 population data was used to calculate prevalence for 2024. CWD, chronic wasting disease.

Figure 2. Annual CWD prevalence in farmed cervids, South Korea, 2001–2024. A) All cervids; B) red deer; C) elk; D) sika deer. Prevalence (%) was calculated as no. CWD-positive cervids/nationwide farmed cervid population for each species per year. Population data for 2024 was not available, so 2023 population data was used to calculate prevalence for 2024. CWD, chronic wasting disease.

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