Moose populations have declined in recent years and scientists still aren’t sure of the cause. A brain parasite, normally found in white-tailed deer, may be partially to blame. What we have ...

Moose populations across some areas of ... The researchers hypothesize that the parasites ultimately cause brain damage, which leads to health issues. The damage can cause death on its own ...

A parasitic worm that can infest the brains of moose appears to be playing a role ... they're basically shot-gunning the whole brain," said Kyle Taylor, a pathologist at WSU's Washington Animal ...

A parasite never before seen ... may result if a cyst is embedded in the brain or nervous system. Talbot said an outbreak of these tapeworms in moose populations in northern New Hampshire has ...

They're looking for habitat, they're looking for a mate, or they may have a brain parasite, which would cause them to be sick and disoriented. "That is not moose habitat in southern Minnesota ...

More than two billion people around the world are infected with a brain parasite called Toxoplasma gondii. This parasite is primarily spread through cats and contaminated meat, yet the majority of ...

Likely introduced to New Brunswick in the 1940s through the white-tailed deer, moose have not evolved with immunity to the parasite. This photo of brain worms in a container at a research lab at ...

There is documentation that a deadly brain parasite will cause an infected moose to roam aimlessly. “We don’t know what the animal at Lake Crystal is doing here,” said Dan Ruiter ...