Surveillance Optimization Project for Chronic Wasting Disease dataset for Mississippi, US, 2018-2021

This dataset contains one file containing data from the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks shared with the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab (CWHL) at Cornell University for the purpose of the Surveillance Optimization Project for Chronic Wasting Disease (SOP4CWD). Professionals at the source facility have provided written permission for professionals at the CWHL to post this open data to this persistent eCommons repository. MSDWFP_WTD_surveillance_2021.csv: This data constitutes records in standardized form depicting the results of chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in Mississippi, US for hunting seasons from 2018-19 to 2020-21, as completed by wildlife health diagnosticians at (or in partnership with) the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks.The SOP4CWD project was funded by Multistate Conservation Grant Program # F21AP00722-01; Michigan Disease Initiative # RC109358; Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources; Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency; New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; and Virginia Department of Natural Resources