The appearance of chronic wasting disease has prompted the Indiana Department of Natural Resources to increase deer ...

It's a simple conservation effort that could prevent a conservation catastrophe. State proposes urgent action to curb spread ...

Chronic wasting disease — an always fatal disease that affects deer, elk and other animals — has been spreading across the country for the past few decades. This year, it was detected for the ...

U.S. researchers say it’s time to look beyond deer when watching for chronic wasting disease exposure and infection, ...

A fatal disease is spreading amongst Alberta's deer population. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a brain disease that affects ...

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Pennsylvania deerhalf a state away, locally the reaction was one of superficial concern. Wishful thinking was that the always-fatal ...

primarily affects white-tailed deer, elk, and other species in the cervid family. It is always fatal in infected animals, ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reports chronic washing disease (CWD) prevalence is increasing in much of northeastern ...

Chronic wasting disease might just be the most terrifying illness you’ve never heard of. It slowly ... [+] turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses ...

The rapid progression of chronic wasting disease in wild deer and elk in the Northern Rockies means it’s here to stay. There is one instance of the fatal disease being eradicated in the wild, in 2005 ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a second case of chronic wasting disease from a deer in the state.