A new report calls for further study into a possible link between chronic wasting disease in deer and a rare and deadly brain ...

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

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

Chronic wasting disease has not yet been shown to be transmissible from animals to humans. However, the researchers are ...

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

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.

Shortly after, another hunter from the same community also died of CJD, and when it became known that both men had a history ...

Korzekwa said there has not been human research on CWD jumping to humans, but there have been states that have followed up ...

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

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