243 cases of Chronic Wasting Disease have been reported in ... Hudman also compared the disease to cancer in terms of the way it spreads and the way it gets treated, a battle she knows all too ...

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 suggests ...

Randall Gornowich / Maryland Department of Natural Resources In the lineup of wildlife diseases across the country, few are more studied and yet still more mysterious than chronic wasting disease. The ...

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 ...

Chronic Wasting Disease is considered the most important disease affecting deer and elk populations in North America. And it has been detected in California for the first time. Brandon Munk is a ...

With the first-ever case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the Georgia, here's what the The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission has to say about the disease. What is Chronic Wasting ...

KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WSAZ) - Chronic wasting disease, or zombie disease, is showing up in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, but what is chronic wasting disease? CWD neurologically affects ...

Microscopic analysis by Montana scientists has revealed the first detailed structure of the pathogen that causes chronic wasting disease (CWD), the always fatal illness that infects deer ...

For decades, chronic wasting disease has plagued Colorado’s deer, elk and moose herds. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been working to manage and respond to outbreaks of the fatal neurological ...

A new study authored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department finds hunting greater numbers of male deer can slow the spread of chronic wasting disease. The U.S ...