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

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

A disease that kills white-tailed deer has moved further into central Illinois. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources ...

CWD is a fatal infectious disease, caused by a misfolded prion, a type of protein, that affects the nervous system in deer.

There have been no cases of chronic wasting disease in people to date, the CDC says. But it is still investigating the ...

Chronic wasting disease continues to spread in white-tailed deer in Wisconsin and other states, highlighted by two findings this month. On April 11 the Department of Natural Resources confirmed ...

Scientists have long feared that chronic wasting disease could jump from deer to humans. That wouldn't just be dangerous to human health, but devastating to the outdoor economies of Minnesota ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The National Park Service has confirmed two of the deer which recently tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease in Jefferson County were killed on the Harpers Ferry ...

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 ...

Concerns about chronic wasting disease have heightened after a case report surfaced of two hunters who developed neurological disorders and died after eating venison from a population of deer that ...

(WCIA) — The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced the presence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free-ranging ...