Chronic Wasting Disease is a progressive, fatal disease that affects the brain, spinal cord and many other tissues of farmed and free-ranging deer, elk, and moose.

Chronic Wasting Disease is a neurological disease that infects white-tailed deer, elk and moose and poses a serious threat to wild populations. The illness causes changes to the animals' brain ...

Chronic wasting disease is a fatal prion-induced disease, similar to mad cow disease, that affects cervids such as deer, elk, and moose. It is a neurodegenerative disease typified by chronic ...

In the lineup of wildlife diseases across the country, few are more studied and yet still more mysterious than chronic wasting disease. The prion disease, first identified in a Colorado research ...

There is a lot of concern surrounding deer having chronic wasting disease, you may know it from photos and talk of “zombie deer” in the wild. Skip to main content. Open Main Menu Navigation.

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

Following last week’s confirmation of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) found in a captive deer in Herkimer County, New York State Department of Agriculture continues to investigate the detection to ...

Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the first-ever case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the state. The disease was found in a hunter-harvested deer in Lanier County ...

Chronic wasting disease was first detected in the U.S. in the 1960s in Colorado. Before this week, it had been found in 34 states, according to the CDC.

Chronic wasting disease impacts all ungulates, however, the prominent concern in Colorado has been for its deer populations. Currently, in northwest Colorado, there is only one management area — south ...

With the first-ever case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the Georgia, here's what the The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has to say about the disease.