According to the report “Big Cats as Nature’s Check Against Disease” by Dr. Jim Keen, a veterinarian and infectious disease expert, mountain lions prey on deer and elk afflicted with chronic ...

Pennsylvania Game Commission materials on Chronic Wasting Disease are arrayed for participants in an informational meeting Thursday, Feb. 27, 2025, at Penn State Hazleton in Luzerne County.

Their predation can reduce the incidence of CWD and underscores the ability of native cats to cleanse deer and elk herds of the brain-wasting disease detected in Colorado in the late 1960s.

Chronic wasting disease, first detected in the state in 2022, has continued to spread throughout northeast Louisiana with news cases being detected in Jefferson Davis, St. Landry, Concordia and ...