Apr 17, 2024 · Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects deer, elk, moose and similar animals. It has been reported in the United States, Canada, Norway, Finland, Sweden and South Korea. No CWD infections in people have ever been reported. And it's not known if people can even get infected with CWD.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer.

Sep 5, 2024 · CWD is a disease of the central nervous system caused by a prion that often presents as wasting. You can reduce the risk of CWD spreading to and infecting a farmed cervid herd by maintaining strict biosecurity.

Chronic Wasting Disease is a prion disease that attacks the brain of infected deer, elk and moose. Animals in the late stages of CWD are often emaciated, show erratic behavior and exhibit neurological irregularities.

Feb 10, 2025 · Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurologic disease of cervids, presents a monumental management challenge, in part because the etiological agent, an infectious prion, is extremely difficult to inactivate and can be transmitted directly or indirectly to hosts.

Jan 16, 2025 · DULUTH, Minn. (Northern News Now) - In a first-of-its-kind report recently published by the University of Minnesota, researchers have turned their attention to the risk of Chronic Wasting...

Jun 10, 2024 · Chronic wasting disease has been spreading among deer in the United States, which has raised concerns that the fatal neurological illness might make the leap to people. But a recent study...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a serious disease in animals such as deer, elk, moose and reindeer. Since first reported in the United States, CWD has spread to animals in more than half of the states in the continental United States. It is always fatal in infected animals. There is no vaccine or treatment. CWD is a type of prion disease.

CWD is a slow-spreading, always-fatal disease that takes one to two years to kill an infected deer, so it does not destroy deer populations in dramatic fashion. Rather, in diseased areas, it threatens to slowly erode deer productivity and reduce a population’s ability to sustain hunter harvest without declining.

CWD can be transferred from deer to deer via direct contact and contact with bodily fluids. Therefore, prevalence and spread increase with deer density. However, abnormal prion proteins that are shed from CWD positive deer can persist in the environment for many years, which can additionally infect deer.