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 ...

Twenty-three years after the first detections were reported, chronic wasting disease continues to spread geographically and increase in prevalence in Wisconsin's white-tailed deer herd ...

MANITOWOC – A deer in Manitowoc County has been identified to have chronic wasting disease, and authorities urge hunters to test any deer they have harvested. The positive test result is from a ...

The first case of chronic wasting disease has been reported in a Chippewa County deer and confirmed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The deer was a hunter-harvested 1-year-old buck.

It applies to deer permit areas 646, 647 and 648. “Chronic wasting disease, commonly referred to as CWD, is a fatal neurological disease that affects cervids, including white-tailed deer.

“That means if CWD is at very low concentrations, you can still find the disease,” Schuler says. “This is the method that’s been used to identify prions in urine or blood or skeletal muscle before.” ...

Disease Management Areas (DMAs) for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) are expected to expand this year with infections being found in new parts of southeastern and western Pennsylvania. The ...

This week the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota released a report titled “Chronic Wasting Disease Spillover Preparedness and Response: Charting an ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A startling increase in the prevalence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in southeastern Minnesota’s deer population has triggered a new management response from the Department of ...