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 ...

Here's where "zombie deer disease" has been reported so far: Reports of chronic wasting disease in the U.S. and abroad. Chronic wasting disease has been found in animal populations in at least 31 ...

The prion disease that causes "zombie deer" is spreading to more states. Is there such a thing as “zombie deer?” The answer is yes, and they may be your newest neighbors. Since the first ...

The disease was first identified in captive deer in the 1960s and in wild deer in the 1990s and has now been reported in at least 29 states in the continental U.S., according to government data.

The most recent case — a red deer from a deer farm in Wayne County — was confirmed by a USDA lab this spring after it was ...

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has now been reported in deer in at least 22 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces. A study has raised concerns that CWD could eventually jump to humans.

Here's what you should know about chronic wasting disease and why some people call it "zombie deer disease." A blacktail deer walks through Smith Point County Park during the early morning hours ...

The formal name of the ailment is chronic wasting disease, or CWD. But its effects on deer, elk and other cervids – weight loss, stumbling, listlessness and certain death – have inspired a ...

But Larsen called “zombie deer disease” an unfortunate and potentially misleading moniker. “I have only seen one deer that has died of [chronic wasting disease] and it was emaciated,” he said.

Despite ongoing efforts to curtail its spread in the U.S. and abroad, the lethal chronic wasting disease (CWD) remains a threat — with no vaccine or cure. In 2005, the “zombie deer” disease ...

Chronic wasting disease — which affects deer, elk and moose — continues to spread throughout the Great Plains and Midwest. Just this year, authorities in western Oklahoma detected the state ...

A deer carcass in the Wyoming area of the park tested positive for the highly contagious prion disease that can also cause weight loss, stumbling, listlessness and neurological symptoms, according ...