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DNR launched an updated response plan chronic wasting disease that includes collaboration with the hunting community.

Concerns about chronic wasting disease have heightened after a case report surfaced of two hunters who developed neurological disorders and died after eating venison from a population of deer that may ...

This Pennsylvania Game Commission deer head collection bin has sat in the Salisbury Township Office parking lot off Route 340 for the past few years. Pennsylvania hunters worried about deer they’ve ...

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. This year, it was detected for the first ...

This image from 2000, taken by the Wyoming Game and Fish and Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance, shows a deer with visible symptoms of chronic wasting disease.

Correction & clarification: A prior version of this story incorrectly described the connection between chronic wasting disease and human infection. Two hunters who ate meat from a population of deer ...

The elk escaped less than two years after the Idaho Legislature passed a law removing a double-fencing requirement at ...

Two deer tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Mississippi counties already within CWD management zones, near the borders of counties outside the zones. Due to the minimal impact on the ...

Chronic Wasting Disease affects deer, elk, and similar species and has no known cure or vaccine. Officials advise against consuming meat from deer that appear sick or test positive for the disease.

Iowa is shifting focus from eradicating chronic wasting disease to instead “mitigating its spread and managing its impacts.” ...