Chronic Wasting Disease Articles

A second deer has tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Mississippi less than 50 miles from a neighboring state.

Before there was a clear understanding of how CWD prions could and could not be transmitted by the environment, there was always the question of when an infected area was free of the disease.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission will host special public meetings concerning chronic wasting disease in Fort Smith and Springdale.

A whitetail collected on Jan. 25, 2018, in Issaquena County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. To date, CWD has been confirmed in 24 states, three Canadian provinces and two foreign countries.

Chronic wasting disease continues to spread, and the first case of CWD in Montana might be confirmed soon.

Mississippi is fighting chronic wasting disease by trying to keep it out. The Magnolia State now wants certain deer carcasses left elsewhere.

Is Chronic Waste Disease running rampant in Missouri? It could be after deer killed in 29 counties over opening weekend tested positive.

The National Deer Alliance has constructed a working group of numerous professions to review the USDA Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program.

Whitetails near San Antonio recently had its number of confirmed chronic wasting disease cases double. How are officials fighting the recent spike?

More than 9 percent of white-tailed deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease last year, and game officials are worried the affliction will be difficult to stop.

With each passing year, deer are in danger of Chronic Wasting Disease. Even with constant research, news doesn't seem to be getting better.

Deer infected with chronic wasting disease usually die alone and out of sight, but in some cases they seek shelter in unusual places.

In deer, elk and moose, Chronic Wasting Disease deteriorates the brain and causes a loss of body condition and weight loss, as well as excessive drooling and behavior similar to Alzheimer's.

CWD is killing more deer every year, and research money is drying up. Is there a way to stop chronic wasting disease from damaging deer hunting as we know it?

A third free-ranging deer from Meridian Township near Lansing has tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

State wildlife officials say testing has turned up a second case of chronic wasting disease in a wild deer.

The deer were owned by Daniel Yoder, who was arrested on charges of tampering with evidence related to an investigation into how chronic wasting disease came to his property and spread.

A state wildlife official says recent testing hasn't turned up additional cases of chronic wasting disease after Michigan earlier confirmed its first case in a wild deer.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources announced a white-tailed female deer in Ingham County's Meridian Township tested positive for the contagious and fatal disease that attacks the brains of infected deer and elk.

State wildlife officials say chronic wasting disease has spread to six counties in southwest Kansas.

This marks the first time the fatal illness has appeared outside Missouri's northern containment zone.

State officials say no deer killed in a special state-sanctioned hunt in northeast Iowa have tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

Missouri officials are advancing tougher rules for deer breeders and hunting preserves, potentially stripping the conservation agency of power over captive deer.

New York environmental officials say none of the more than 2,400 deer tested for chronic wasting disease during hunting season showed signs of the disease.

Missouri conservation officials say tests of deer from the fall hunting season have indicated no new cases of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer.

The Pennsylvania Game Commission says it's detected chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer for the first time in a year.

Ever since Missouri discovered Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in 11 deer in captive operations in northeast Missouri in 2010 and 2011 and 10 deer in the nearby free-ranging herd, deer farms have been under fire.

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