Ohio hunters have discovered 24 white-tailed deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), also known as 'zombie disease' ...
The case is the first wild deer to test positive for the disease outside of Tensas Parish, where it was initially found in the state in 2022.
LDWF has reported a confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Catahoula Parish, marking the first positive outside of Tensas Parish and bringing the total ...
A farmed white-tail deer from Osceola County was found with CWD.. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural ...
As with similar prion diseases, including scrapie in sheep, mad cow in cattle and Creutzfeldt–Jakob in humans, no treatment is available and the outcome is death. The fact that deer are numerous ...
Once in the ground and water, prions remain indefinitely. While deer and other animals such as elk and moose that contract CWD always die and there is no vaccine or treatment, the disease can ...