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.

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

Province plans to capture, kill and test of hundreds of animals in cities of Cranbrook and Kimberley as it seeks to stem the ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) recently confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) ...

Chronic wasting disease — also known as CWD or “zombie deer disease” — spreads through highly infectious prions, deformed proteins that accumulate in the animal's body. Those prions pass into the ...

A deer farm in southern Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, has been quarantined for chronic wasting disease. The farm recently ...

A handful of projects focused on disease and health threats will be receiving funding from Results Driven Agriculture ...

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first ... was that the always-fatal neurological disease caused by a misfoldedprotein called prions in deer and elk would somehow contain itself.

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Sixty positive cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer were detected during surveillance conducted in eastern Nebraska during the November firearm deer season, Nebraska ...

U.S. researchers say it’s time to look beyond deer when watching for chronic wasting disease exposure and infection, ...