Age, gender, and lifestyle are key factors in predicting risks for illnesses like cancer and heart disease, but adding race ...

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 ...

More deer hunters this year will be required to submit tissue samples for CWD testing now that the deer disease has cropped ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - In a first-of-its-kind report recently published by the University of Minnesota, ...

News of a chronic wasting disease case in Mecosta County came just days after Minnesota researchers said CWD could eventually pose a risk to other wildlife, livestock and potentially humans.

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 are warning that chronic wasting disease (CWD) — also known as “zombie deer” disease — could spill over to humans ...