Chronic wasting disease, a condition that fatally infects the brains of animals like deer, continues to spread in Canada and ...

Hunters in Herkimer and Otsego Counties should be paying close attention to signs of chronic wasting disease as Federal and ...

(Conducted in Canada, the study awaits peer review ... in the human or animal food chains,” says Bryan Richards, chronic wasting disease project leader for the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS ...

Chronic wasting disease was first found in a wild ... Montana from infected animals in Wyoming and Saskatchewan, Canada. The disease is now found in 35 states and five Canadian provinces as ...

Nearly indestructible. And always fatal. Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD is a contagious neurological disease caused by a misfolded protein— called a prion— that infects our cervids ...

Is chronic wasting disease (CWD) a potential time bomb for the agriculture industry? There is no direct proof of CWD transmission via contaminated grain or feedstuffs, but researchers say evidence ...

The detailed structure of a misfolded protein from a diseased deer could help explain why the disease hasn’t made the leap to humans.

In 2022, scientists in Canada published a study, based on mice research, suggesting a risk of CWD transmission to humans. Here's what you need to know about chronic wasting disease and whether you ...

Hunters in Hastings made stops at a chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing site after each successful kill on Saturday, the ...

Following last week’s confirmation of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) found in a captive deer in Herkimer County, New York State Department of Agriculture continues to investigate the detection to ...

The New York State DEC recently announced a confirmed case of chronic wasting disease in Upstate New York. Jeremy Hurst, who ...

A 3-year-old female white-tailed deer in a Kerr County breeding facility has died of chronic wasting disease, also known as "zombie deer" disease, marking the first confirmed detection in the ...