The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced a CWD-positive deer has been detected in Carbon County. The deer, an adult male, was detected in Packer Township, Carbon County. This detection is the first ...

A dead deer in Carbon County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD).The Pennsylvania Game Commission on ...

The Luzerne County detections are 40 miles from the nearest wild CWD detection. They will ultimately result in disease ...

There’s been another dead deer that has tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Pennsylvania, just a few weeks after officials announced finding other ...

Chronic wasting disease surveillance conducted in eastern Nebraska during the November firearm deer season detected 60 positive cases in deer.

Chronic Wasting Disease is a neurological disease caused by a misfolded protein called a prion and is always fatal for deer and elk. It is simiilar to mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt ...

Researchers are now racing to come up with strategies to at least slow the spread of the disease in deer and reduce the ...

CWD spreads through direct animal-to-animal contact, as well as indirectly through prion-contaminated environments. CWD-infected individuals shed prions through saliva, urine and feces, and ...

CWD is a fatal disease that affects deer, elk, and moose. It is caused by prions, which are infectious proteins. There is no ...

CWD is a fatal, infectious nervous system disease of deer, moose, elk and reindeer/caribou. It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases.

Recently Dusty Backer, one of the loudest critics of the NDGF's restrictions on bait hunting (which wildlife experts say can contribute to the spread of prion diseases of which CWD is one ...