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 ...
SCIENTISTS have warned ‘zombie deer disease’, fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically ...
Wildlife Management Biologist Matt Dollison from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources says three Chronic Wasting Disease ...
CWD plays by a unique set of disease rules and does not spread by the common modes of infection (bacteria or virus), but is transmitted by a corrupted prion, essentially a misfolded protein.
The way CWD spreads is unique, which makes it harder for health experts to limit the spread. "It's caused by a protein and ...
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) ...
A two-and-a-half-year-old male white-tailed deer, harvested on private property in Lanier County, tested positive for the fatal disease at the USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories.