Starting next deer season, hunters in south Georgia will have the option to drop off the heads of deer they take to be tested ...

An elk found dead on the Scab Creek Feedground in Elk Hunt Area 98 in Wyoming at the end of December has tested positive for ...

Researchers have identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in raw, cooked, and cured meat from an infected elk in Texas ...

CWD is a neurological disease caused by natural proteins called “prions.” It is not caused by a virus, and has no treatment or vaccine. Georgia DNR reports that CWD is in the same family of ...

Chronic wasting disease, an unstoppable killer of deer, is creeping closer to Columbus. Initially detected at Killdeer Plains Wildlife Area in Wyandot County during the 2020 hunting season ...

Wildlife Management Biologist Matt Dollison from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says three Chronic Wasting Disease ...

SCIENTISTS have warned ‘zombie deer disease’, fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically ...

The way CWD spreads is unique, which makes it harder for health experts to limit the spread. "It's caused by a protein and ...

An adult cow elk found dead on the Scab Creek feedground in late December tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. This marks the third documented case of the disease in Wyoming’s Elk Hunt Area 98 ...

Two hours before a special hunt in 2002 to test for chronic wasting disease (CWD), this doe and her fawn stand alert in a field just south of Clayton, Minn. (Brian Peterson/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

Cases confirmed in two adult bucks — one in DPA 266 near Hawley, Minnesota, and the other in DPA 701 near Greenfield in Hennepin County. Chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in two deer ...