Greene County residents are invited to an informational meeting about a particular animal illness that was recently spotted in the county.

The Iowa Department of Natural Resources will be hosting a Chronic Wasting Disease meeting at the Churdan Public Library tomorrow at 6:30pm at the library’s meeting room. Attendees can learn more about the disease that was first detected in a whitetail deer in Greene County in 2021 and how it is a fatal illness that impacts deer, elk, moose and caribou. 

CWD is a neurological disease that attacks a deer’s brain causing the animal to lose weight, display abnormal behavior, lose body functions and eventually die. Testing for CWD is the only way to know if a deer is infected as they will display no signs of the illness.

Tomorrow night’s program is free and open to the public.