The eeriness of a deer with chronic wasting disease is unforgettable, which is precisely why this disease has earned its ...

The disease, similar to mad cow disease in cattle, is caused by an infectious protein. When a deer starts showing symptoms, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - Since 2013, chronic wasting disease has been detected in more than 500 deer across 31 Iowa counties. The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has launched an ...

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 ...

The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has announced new guidelines for hunters and farmers related to a deadly disease found in deer. “It is a neurological disease that is always fatal,” ...

For decades, chronic wasting disease has plagued Colorado’s deer, elk and moose herds. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been working to manage and respond to outbreaks of the fatal neurological ...

EAST LANSING, Mich — It’s almost invisible. Nearly indestructible. And always fatal. Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD is a contagious neurological disease caused by a misfolded protein— called a prion— ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KFVS) - Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials say they have detected chronic wasting disease in deer populations Putnam, Marshall, Adams and Peoria counties. Chronic ...

Two cases of chronic wasting disease have been found in deer in Sussex County, marking the first reported cases in Delaware ...