Press release from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife: Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been detected for the first time in California’s deer and elk. The California Department of Fish ...

Authorities with the DNR say the deer, identified as a doe around four or five years old, was humanely put down in the town ...

Zombie deer disease, also known as chronic wasting disease (CWD), continues to spread across the U.S., threatening at-risk white-tailed deer – and potentially the hunters who kill and eat them.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources confirmed the first positive test result for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a ...

MADISON, Wis. (WEAU) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is confirming the first positive test result for chronic ...

The National Deer Association (NDA) is urging deer hunters to not jump to conclusions based on a widely circulated report ...

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 ...

In 2022, a 72-year-old man with "a history of consuming meat from a CWD-infected deer population," began showing signs of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, the Texas neurologists wrote in their presentation.

However, the researchers wrote, the case "emphasizes the need for further investigation into the potential risks of consuming CWD-infected deer and its implications for public health." There have ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CWD is a highly contagious and fatal disease that is caused by an abnormal protein called a “prion” that affects deer, elk ...

CWD has never been found in humans, but researchers now believe there may be a risk of the fatal disease spreading after two ...