CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

There is a risk of chronic wasting disease, also known as CWD, jumping from animals like deer over to humans, according to a ...

CWD was first discovered in 1967 in Fort Collins, Colorado. CWD is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk, and moose caused by infectious, misfolded proteins called prions. There are no current ...

ATLANTA — The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the state's first case of Chronic Wasting Disease ...

There is no known transmission to humans, but the CDC ... to limit the spread of CWD: Avoid moving live deer to new areas, as this poses the highest risk for spreading the disease.

Chronic wasting disease has been prevalent in various cervid species across the United States and other countries since the ...

Last year, they successfully lobbied against the confirmation of Gary Skiba, a hunter, angler, bighorn sheep biologist, and 23-year veteran of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, because he supported wolf ...

Wildlife Resources Division (WRD) has confirmed through the United States Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories that a hunter-harvested deer sampled for routine ...

(KNSI) – Chronic wasting disease continues to spread in Minnesota after two deer tested positive for the deadly disease ...

Technology has long been a presence in the angling world, too, from the first primitive outboard motors that ended the need to “man the oars,” to depth-reading flasher units that helped us understand ...

Ending the spread of CWD appears unlikely because the prions, which cluster in the brain and nervous system, can be ...