Photo Credit: iStock Researchers report that chronic wasting disease, or CWD, can leave behind transmissible prions even in ...

Deer, elk, and moose infected with chronic wasting disease can spread the fatal brain illness to other animals long before they show any outward sign of sickness. Infected cervids shed misfolded ...

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 ...

A prion sickness similar to mad cow is spreading rapidly through North America’s deer and elk populations. A veterinary microbiologist discusses the options for keeping it in check. By James Gaines / ...

Wildlife experts have developed a regional computer model—and user-friendly app—that predicts counties in 16 states where wildlife managers should target their surveillance of chronic wasting disease ...

New research in Wildlife Monographs provides extensive details into the movement of white-tailed deer, with implications for deer management across North America. Chronic wasting disease—a deadly ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - Hunters helped conservationists sample thousands of deer for chronic wasting disease during opening weekend in Missouri. The Missouri Department of Conservation says that ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids -- deer, elk ...

New research suggests infectious prions linked to chronic wasting disease may be present even in animals showing no symptoms. The findings raise difficult questions for deer management, hunting ...

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 ...