A contagious disease that affects deer and other cervids called chronic wasting disease eventually kills every animal that contracts it. The disease has neither treatments or cures. No human cases ...

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State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting disease in the Flathead Valley. Officials first received reports of a sickly ...

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Chronic wasting disease is what’s called a “prion disease,” named for the misfolded proteins that cause it. It infects animals like deer and elk and causes neurodegenerative disorders.

Nicholas Haley, a veterinary microbiologist at Midwestern University in Arizona, coauthored an overview of chronic wasting disease in the 2015 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences and has been ...

The disease specifically impacts the animals in the cervid family, including deer, elk, moose and reindeer. Movement of wild, captive and privately owned deer and elk is an contributing factor in ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), is a fatal, infectious nervous system disease of deer, moose, elk and reindeer/caribou, according to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.

JEFFERSON DAVIS PARISH, La. — The Louisiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed a positive Chronic Wasting Disease test from a dead deer found at a deer farm in Jefferson Davis.

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

Chronic wasting disease was detected in a white-tailed deer in North Idaho in August. That prompted the Idaho Fish and Game Commission to announce a nine-day “surveillance hunt” beginning Aug. 24.