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Texas Parks and Wildlife to deploy prion‑detection devices, posts CWD dashboard for Hollywood Park
Summary
Texas Parks and Wildlife told the Hollywood Park Deer Committee it will deploy Priogen environmental sampling devices on public and utility easements in Hollywood Park, provide quarterly swabs with a roughly 10–14 day lab turnaround, and now offers a public Chronic Wasting Disease dashboard for Bexar County.
Texas Parks and Wildlife staff told the Hollywood Park Deer Committee that the agency plans to deploy Priogen environmental sampling devices on city and utility easements within Hollywood Park and that a new online dashboard will show local Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) sampling and test results.
The announcement came during the committee’s regular meeting after staff described how the metal Priogen devices will be attached to trees or utility poles and baited with a beet root mineral block to encourage deer to lick the device; technicians will swab deployed devices four times a year and send the swabs for laboratory testing. “Usually, when we turn in a sample into Priagen, it’s a pretty fast…
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