CWD, which is fatal to all deer that contract it, was first identified in the 1960s, and is now in 24 states across the nation. It's a serious infectious disease in animals, but likely won't spark ...

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Because there’s no way to test a live deer for the disease, the only way to find out if a deer population has CWD is to test a carcass; the disease lives in the spinal and brain tissue ...

If you’re planning to hunt any deer this year, here are four things to know about chronic wasting disease, including whether ...

New cases of CWD, chronic wasting disease, have been detected in deer in Missouri and Arkansas.This is concerning because CWD is very similar to "mad cow disease." During the 1990s, an outbreak of mad ...

Chronic wasting disease is a progressive, fatal prion disease that affects the brain, spinal cord and many other tissues of farmed and free-ranging deer, elk, and moose. CWD earned the nickname ...

CWD in Mississippi: Fatal deer disease found in 6 additional counties. Here's where 'One of the really fascinating things about this is the scrape testing.

And 10.4% of the 16,321 deer tested in 2024 were CWD-positive, the highest statewide rate since surveillance for the fatal deer disease began in 1999. Although the CWD testing is conducted on deer ...

Since chronic wasting disease was first detected in wild deer in 2015, more than 109,000 deer have been tested for CWD in Michigan. In total, more than 143,000 wild deer have been tested since ...

CWD earned the nickname “zombie deer disease” for its unsettling associated symptoms. The NCWRC's list of these symptoms includes: Listlessness or showing little interest in their surroundings.