Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer.

Most informed hunters know the basic facts about CWD: it is a 100% fatal degenerative neurological disease caused by misfolded proteins called prions. These prions are shed in saliva, urine, and feces and can persist for years in soil or other media.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) most likely originated at a Fort Collins, Colorado, research facility in the 1960s where deer were reportedly kept in pens also used by sheep that had been exposed to scrapie, a related disease.

Jun 25, 2024 · Ahead of the data dump illuminating how CWD-infected deer are using the landscape differently, an eye-opening discovery has emerged. The collared deer are dying at horrendous rates that threaten to wipe out the herd.

Chronic wasting disease, often referred to as CWD, is a prion disease that affects all members of the Cervidae (deer) family, including white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), elk (Cervus canadensis), and moose (Alces alces americana).

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease of cervids (deer, elk, moose, etc.). It spreads readily from CWD-contaminated environments and among wild cervids. As of 2022, North American CWD has been found in 29 states, four Canadian provinces ...

Apr 18, 2018 · To date, CWD has been detected in captive and free-ranging deer, elk, and moose in at least 24 states and two Canadian provinces, but it is not exactly a new disease.

Jun 22, 2024 · First identified in a single herd of captive mule deer in Colorado in 1967, chronic wasting disease — CWD — has now been found in captive and wild mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, moose and reindeer. It’s been found in 32 states and has crossed international boundaries into Canada, South Korea and Norway, among other countries.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer, and moose (e.g., members of the cervid species). CWD has been found in some areas of North America, including 3 Canadian provinces and 32 states within the United States, Norway, Finland, Sweden, and South Korea.

Apr 12, 2024 · First identified in a single herd of captive mule deer in Colorado in 1967, chronic wasting disease—CWD—has now been found in captive and wild mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, moose and...