Ending the spread of CWD appears unlikely because the prions, which cluster in the brain and nervous system, can be ...

For the first time, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been confirmed in a deer found in Georgia. Tina Johannsen, assistant ...

Twenty-three years after the first detections were reported, chronic wasting disease continues to spread geographically and increase in prevalence in Wisconsin's white-tailed deer herd, according to ...

The prion disease that causes deer, elk and other cervids to waste away could someday jump to humans, but many hunters are ...

DNR is encouraging other hunters across South Georgia especially in Berrien and Lanier counties to take their meat to get sampled.

The first positive case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Georgia was confirmed Wednesday by the Georgia Department of ...

Chronic Wasting Disease, also known as Zombie Deer Disease, affects deer, elk, moose, and reindeer, causing severe ...

It’s actual name is Chronic Wasting Disease and is a fatal neurological disease that affects deer, elk, and moose.

Scientists express concern over the possibility of the deadly and incurable 'zombie deer' disease affecting humans. The ...

Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease that affects ... It may take more than a year before an infected animal develops symptoms, which can include drastic weight loss (wasting), stumbling ...

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the state's first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a ...