The $12 million will help state and tribal governments, research institutions, and universities to combat chronic wasting ...

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The funds will be used to increase surveillance and testing for the fatal prion disease that affects cervids such as deer, elk, and moose. There has not been a documented human infection of chronic ...

Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease that affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose and reindeer, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It has been found in the United States ...

Sports Outdoors ‘Silver lining’: CWD prevalence in North Idaho at less than 1% June 12, 2025 Updated Thu., June 12, 2025 at 2:47 p.m. A white-tailed deer. (Courtesy of Idaho Fish and Game) X ...

POWELL — A six-year study of more than 600 deer in Wisconsin may have found ways to improve management of fatal chronic wasting disease by studying hourly and daily group ...

“People pick it up unknowingly and move it to where they live—and they can spread it that way,” said Hunter Westacott, a chronic wasting disease expert. “So there’s always that concern.

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Scientists estimate that when chronic wasting disease prevalence reaches between 7% and 13%, elk populations will decline. Prevalence in western Wyoming elk is thought to be less than 1%.