Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and ...

Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD which affects members of the deer family ... which means they can remain infectious for years.

The men died after developing Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which like CWD is a prion disease, a class of fatal neurological disorders, which can affect humans and animals, and usually progress ...

What’s widely known as “zombie deer disease” is gradually increasing in the Beehive State. The official name is Chronic ...

The deer in Adams County, in west-central Illinois, is the first documented case outside of the state's northern CWD-endemic ...

While humans have not been affected ... What disease makes deer 'zombie'? Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD which affects members of the deer family including white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk ...