“To date, there have been no cases of (chronic wasting disease) in people and no direct proof that people can get (the disease),” according to a CDC report. “Nevertheless, these experimental ...

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

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 ...

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