Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a deadly neurological illness affecting white-tailed deer, has been detected for the first time in Adams County, the Illinois Dep ...

Thyroid disease can sometimes cause repeated bouts of an itchy skin rash known as hives. In fact, up to 30% of people with chronic hives (also known as chronic urticaria) have an underlying autoimmune ...

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has approved new rules to help prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease ... parts that may carry prions, the disease-causing proteins.

Chronic Wasting Disease infected more than 20 deer in Ohio this past hunting season. Ohio deer are testing positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a neurological disease that is always fatal to ...

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The Canadian Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance System (CJDSS) is operated by the Public Health Agency of Canada and conducts prospective national surveillance for all types of human prion disease ...

A number of inflammatory diseases can trigger mucus production, including: Chronic bronchitis Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Cystic fibrosis Pneumonia If excess mucus production is a ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), a lethal and contagious neurological disorder, is spreading rapidly among wildlife across 36 US states and several other countries. Experts are emphasizing the grave ...

One of 126 urban deer culled in southeastern British Columbia to determine if they were sick has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The government culled the animals in Cranbrook and ...

State wildlife managers announced on Monday that they’d detected chronic wasting disease at the ... the lethal prion disease’s spread onto the Horse Creek Feedground, located on state-owned ...

Wildlife officials are getting closer to making a final decision on permanent rules for limiting the spread of chronic wasting disease in Washington ... It’s caused by prions, which are ...