Chronic Wasting Disease — an always fatal disease that affects deer, elk and other animals — has been spreading across the country for the past few decades.

Deer infected with fatal chronic wasting disease have been spotted closer to central Ohio. What steps might be taken as a ...

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

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reports chronic washing disease (CWD) prevalence is increasing in much of northeastern ...

Chronic wasting disease slowly turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses, triggering bizarre behavior and, inevitably, a fatal outcome.

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Pennsylvania deerhalf a state away, locally the reaction was one of superficial concern. Wishful thinking was that the always-fatal ...

A dead deer in Carbon County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD).Chronic Wasting Disease also known as CWD ...

Regionwide, CWD prevalence in adult mule deer has increased from around 3% of the 2018-19 samples to almost 18% of 2024 ...

The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is monitoring a recent confirmation of chronic wasting disease in a ...

The deer was harvested in Posey County, Indiana — near western Kentucky. Chronic wasting disease has been found in many ...

The cull will be focused on Cranbrook and Kimberley, where a total of five cases of the disease have been found.

Two deer in Cleburne County and another deer in Baxter County have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to ...