according to the National Wildlife Health Center of the U.S. Geological Survey. Infectious agents known as prions cause chronic wasting disease. Prions are DNA-free, abnormally folded proteins.

Wild Bulletin, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife: Researchers at Purdue University are studying the willingness of hunters and nonhunters to help reduce the spread of ...

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New Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance measures are now in effect for Henderson, Union and Webster counties, ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - A deer harvested in Lanier County tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, according to the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR). DNR said the case ...

Chronic wasting disease — an always fatal disease that ... for the first time in state-run feed grounds in Wyoming, which wildlife biologists fear could lead to a deadly epidemic.

Tennessee deer hunters have just got a new tool for keeping their eyes on chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk herds in the state and across North America. Since its discovery, CWD has ...

The first confirmed case this year of chronic wasting disease has been detected in a deer in Idaho County in north-central Idaho, state wildlife officials said. Idaho Fish and Game on Friday said ...

Michelle Gibison is a diagnostic laboratory testing manager at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and section head of chronic wasting disease at the Wildlife Futures Program.

according to the state Wildlife Resources Commission. The commission reports that 13 new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in Cumberland, Surry, Stokes and Yadkin counties ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — Wildlife officials are increasing efforts to monitor potential cases of chronic wasting disease in deer. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission plans to pay meat ...

FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Last week the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources (DWR) reported that a deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a progressive neurological disease.