Arkansas emerged this spring as America’s hot spot for chronic wasting disease, a fatal infection ... plants and soil through victims’ body fluids. Even years later, healthy animals that ...

The trigger is chronic wasting disease (CWD), a deer-killing malady ... When shed in waste or decaying body parts, prions can ...

Often referred to as CWD, chronic wasting disease is a prion disease, which means the proteins in the body are misfolding. This will cause symptoms that will eventually lead to death, the Centers ...

A case of chronic wasting disease has been confirmed ... unusual actions, loss of body functions and death. The disease can spread from animal to animal, and indirectly through the environment.

This leads to loss of body function, unusual actions, and eventually, death. “The expansion of chronic wasting disease to Washtenaw County is consistent with the slow spread we’ve seen ...

WASHTENAW COUNTY, MI — State officials say a neurological disease has spread to deer in Washtenaw County. An adult buck found ill in Salem Township recently tested positive for chronic wasting ...

The WDFW director also approved a proposal that bans feeding deer, elk or moose across Washington State, including baiting ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has approved new rules to help prevent the spread of chronic wasting ...

CATAHOULA PARISH, La. (KLFY) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is reporting a confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Catahoula ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Chronic wasting disease has been detected in another Michigan county. Osceola County is the latest to tally an animal infected with the disease — a seven-year-old ...

A new case of chronic wasting disease among deer – a condition known as "zombie deer" - has been confirmed in Washtenaw County, Michigan. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources reported ...