A federal veterinary lab in Iowa has confirmed that a whitetail doe shot in northwest Kansas was the state's first wild deer found with chronic wasting disease.

Bob Mathews, Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks spokesman, announced the finding Monday.

Chronic wasting disease is 100 percent fatal within the deer family, which includes whitetail, mule deer, elk and moose.

The doe was shot during the Nov. 30-Dec. 11 firearms season, near St. Francis.

Tissue from the deer was taken as part of a program that took samples from about 2,000 Kansas deer last season.

Wildlife and Parks announced the probability of the disease in Kansas when a preliminary test came back positive last Wednesday.

They weren't surprised.

First documented along the Colorado-Wyoming border in the 1960s, in recent years the disease has shown up as far east as New York and has annually been found in portions of Colorado and Nebraska.