Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a fatal illness that affects members of the deer family, including elk, moose, mule deer, and white-tailed deer.

Sports; Outdoors; Chronic wasting disease pathogen mapped by Hamilton scientists could help create vaccine Nov. 15, 2024 Updated Sat., Nov. 16, 2024 at 6:16 p.m. A sick elk in southeastern Montana ...

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting ...

Here's what hunters and wildlife managers need to know about chronic wasting disease in 2025. Researchers have been hard at work trying to understand CWD ... it’s important to remember that there is ...

What to know about deer and chronic wasting disease Published: January 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM Updated: January 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM Tags: Deer , Chronic Wasting Disease , CWD ...

Chronic wasting disease affects the central nervous systems of elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer and moose. It is fatal. Though the disease has never been documented in humans, ...

J ACKSON, Miss. – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks (MDWFP) collected more than ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Two deer in Cleburne County and another deer in Baxter County have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. Both deer ...

Chronic wasting disease prevalence is rising in multiple deer herds in the northwest region of Colorado, which includes Aspen, amid a lack of understanding about how the disease spreads. CWD is a ...

Testing for Chronic Wasting Disease is performed on the first day of the white-tailed deer firearms season in November 2012 at State Game Lands 249 in Reading Township, Adams County.

New Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance measures are now in effect for three Western Kentucky counties, Henderson, Union and Webster, following the detection of CWD in a deer harvested just ...