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 ...

Chronic wasting disease has been detected in Wyoming since 1981, now affecting nearly the entire state, including the area around Yellowstone. However, ...

Chronic wasting disease: Death of 2 hunters in US raises concerns of 'zombie deer' The 2022 report of two hunters who developed neurological diseases after eating potentially infected deer meat ...

Chronic wasting disease has been in parts of the Great Plains and Midwest since at least 2000, and continues to spread throughout the region. It’s been found in wild deer in 31 states across the ...

Since chronic wasting disease was first discovered in Colorado in 1967, the disease has spread widely across North America. Prior to 2000, just Colorado and Wyoming had known cases in wild deer ...

The Alliance for Public Wildlife, a group that has been very concerned about this, estimates between 7,000 and 15,000 chronic wasting disease-positive animals are being consumed annually in the ...

Chronic wasting disease is a contagious, neurological disease found in elk, deer, and moose. It causes the animal’s brain to deteriorate and turn into a spongy matter, which in turn emaciates ...

Chronic wasting disease has been detected in just one white-tailed deer on the Blackfeet reservation, but once it's present, it's impossible to eradicate, according to wildlife managers.

Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, is a fatal neurological disease that infects our cervid population. Once it's in an area it's hard to stop from spreading. Watch Now .

Ten deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease during the 2024-25 hunting season, mainly in Triad counties. What hunters and farmers need to know about the fatal "zombie deer" disease: ...

Chronic wasting disease in Pennsylvania seen as a threat to NY deer herd. Wildlife experts are concerned about the spread and impact of CWD because the prions are shed through saliva, ...