A contagious disease that affects deer and other cervids called chronic wasting disease eventually kills every animal that contracts it. The disease has neither treatments or cures. No human cases ...

The most recent case — a red deer from a deer farm in Wayne County — was confirmed by a USDA lab this spring after it was ...

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Chronic Wasting Disease — an always fatal disease that affects deer, elk and other animals — has been spreading across the country for the past few decades. Skip to main content.

Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease. advertisement. Rockford WIFR-LD. Chronic wasting disease detected in several stateline counties. Story by Forrest Nelson • 13m ...

Nicholas Haley, a veterinary microbiologist at Midwestern University in Arizona, coauthored an overview of chronic wasting disease in the 2015 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences and has been ...

Chronic wasting disease is what’s called a “prion disease,” named for the misfolded proteins that cause it. It infects animals like deer and elk and causes neurodegenerative disorders.

The National Park Service has found its first cases of chronic wasting disease in Maryland with three white-tailed deer testing positive.

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting disease in the Flathead Valley. Officials first received reports of a sickly ...

JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH, La. — The Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed a positive Chronic Wasting Disease test from a dead deer found at a deer farm in Jefferson Davis.

A fatal neurological disease that affects deer known as chronic wasting disease has been detected in Georgia for the first time, state wildlife officials have announced.