After six years of enhanced surveillance, no cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) have been detected in wild cervids analyzed around the farm where the disease had been detected in 2018. The ...

The new findings bring Maryland's total of confirmed CWD cases to 285 since the fatal prion disease was first confirmed in ...

Captive cervid indemnity is fairly new territory for the USDA and the negotiation process continues. Leonhardt noted one of the facility’s deer had been transported prior to the CWD discovery to ...

CWD is a contagious, fatal, neurological illness that can impact not only white-tailed deer, but other North American cervids like mule deer, elk, and moose.

Just because a deer (or other cervid) displays any of these signs, it does not mean they have CWD. The symptoms may have other causes, the USGS explains. The only way to confirm a deer or animal ...

That disease is chronic wasting disease. It’s also often referred to as “zombie deer disease.” The condition is found in a class of animals called cervids, including elk, moose and deer.

CWD in cervids. Chronic wasting disease was first found in a wild deer killed near Bridger in south-central Montana in 2017. Since then, it has spread to more than 33 of the state’s 139 hunting ...

Just because a deer (or other cervid) displays any of these signs, it does not mean they have CWD. The symptoms may have other causes, the USGS explains. The only way to confirm a deer or animal ...

Just because a deer (or other cervid) displays any of these signs, it does not mean they have CWD. The symptoms may have other causes, the USGS explains. The only way to confirm a deer or animal ...