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 ...

Research by the Pennsylvania Game Commission and Penn State University discovers the truth about deer movements during rut, weather and moon phases.

The disease has already been confirmed in 20 deer — of more than 16,000 tested — in Clinton, Dickinson, Ingham, Ionia, Jackson, Kent and Montcalm counties.

Since CWD was first detected in wild deer in 2015, more than 109,000 deer have been tested in Michigan. In total, more than 143,000 wild deer have been tested through DNR surveillance efforts that ...

For more information on chronic wasting disease, visit Michigan.gov/CWD. Originally Published: January 16, 2025 at 11:34 AM EST ...

Mecosta County is now the 14th in Michigan where CED has been identified in the wild deer population, officials said, after the buck harvested in Millbrook Township tested positive.

White-tailed deer (Michigan Department of Natural Resources / John Pepin) Mecosta is now the 14th Michigan county where chronic wasting disease has been identified in the wild deer population ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been found in both the Upper and Lower peninsulas of Michigan. CWD is a neurological disease that affects deer, elk and moose. It causes a degeneration of the brain.

"In places like Wyoming and Colorado, where this disease has been on the landscape for a long time, there are places where mule deer populations have declined by 10%." Dr. Christensen added.

Michigan's Department of Natural Resources is part of a regional coalition tracking the spread of chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological condition found in white-tailed deer in the state ...

The known status of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in wild white-tailed deer by county in the 2019–20 season according to the results of surveillance testing by US state wildlife agencies. CWD ...

Found in deer in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming in the 1990s, chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been recorded in free-ranging deer, elk and moose in at least 32 states across all parts of ...