Ten deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease during the 2024-25 hunting season, ... “It’s not a living material, it’s not a virus, so it can’t be killed, ...

That disease is chronic wasting disease. It’s also often referred to as “zombie deer disease.” The condition is found in a class of animals called cervids, including elk, moose and deer.

Here's what hunters and wildlife managers need to know about chronic wasting disease in 2025. Researchers have been hard at work trying to understand CWD transmission and prevention. Here are the ...

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 ...

Taking care to avoid any glands that might contain traces of chronic wasting disease (CWD)—a 100 percent fatal illness in deer, ... CWD is not created by a typical virus or bacterium.

If you’re planning to hunt any deer this year, here are four things to know about chronic wasting disease, including whether it can impact humans and if an infected deer’s meat is safe to eat.

Most whitetail deer hunters in Northeastern Pennsylvania have heard of Chronic Wasting Disease and know that it is not good. They know it made its way into Pennsylvania during the 2000s and was und… ...

Chronic wasting disease, an incurable and always-fatal neurological disease found in large game like deer, elk and moose, has been found on the Flathead Reservation north of Missoula for the first ...

Since chronic wasting disease was first detected in wild deer in 2015, more than 109,000 deer have been tested for CWD in Michigan. In total, more than 143,000 wild deer have been tested since ...

CWD is contagious and believed to be spread when an animal comes in contact with an infected animal’s saliva, blood, urine, feces, or carcass. It may also spread through the environment, the CDC ...