Prevalence rates also continue to rise in areas where the disease has previously been detected. In Sauk County, the disease ...

Some news stories on a recent study finding a strong chronic wasting disease (CWD) species barrier between cervids such as ...

But a recent study suggests that the disease has a tough path to take to get into humans. The culprit behind chronic wasting disease, or CWD, isn’t a virus or bacterium but a misfolded brain protein ...

Similar to mad cow disease or scrapie in sheep and goats, CWD is highly contagious and 100% fatal. Infected deer literally ...

Wildlife officials in Texas shot and killed nearly 250 white-tailed deer, most of which had so-called "zombie deer disease", ...

The depopulation of Robert Williams' captive deer herd puts an end to a contentious and lengthy legal battle over CWD ...

In other words, the latest, greatest zombie deer story is mostly media hype based on scientific speculation. Zombie deer aren ...

Significant research is urgently needed to evaluate the ongoing risk of CWD spillover to humans and other non-cervid species.

The 'depopulation' of 249 deer by Texas Parks and Wildlife was to prevent the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease, a deadly ...

The slaughter ends a three-year standoff with game rancher Robert Williams, 85. His tenacious legal challenges had raised the ...

Minnesota and Missouri largely are following the same playbook for addressing CWD: testing hunter-harvested deer in mostly ...