Chronic Wasting Disease Articles

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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