A contagious disease that affects deer and other cervids called chronic wasting disease eventually kills every animal that contracts it. The disease has neither treatments or cures. No human cases ...

The most recent case — a red deer from a deer farm in Wayne County — was confirmed by a USDA lab this spring after it was ...

Maryland DNR has detected chronic wasting disease in a Howard Co. deer for the 1st time. A DNR expert spoke with Patch about ...

Like chronic wasting disease, which affects deer, elk and moose, scrapie is a fatal neurodegenerative disease affecting the central nervous system of sheep and goats.

Also known as chronic wasting disease, "zombie deer disease" is a prion disease, a rare, progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that affects deer, elk, moose and other animals, the CDC says.

Chronic wasting disease — which affects deer, elk and moose — continues to spread throughout the Great Plains and Midwest. Just this year, authorities in western Oklahoma detected the state ...

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting ...

Chronic wasting disease is a contagious, neurological disease found in elk, deer, and moose. It causes the animal’s brain to deteriorate and turn into a spongy matter, which in turn emaciates ...

Edwin Remsburg | VW Pics via Getty Images. As of January, chronic wasting disease had been reported in free-ranging animals like deer and elk in at least 24 states in the continental U.S.

Since chronic wasting disease was first discovered in Colorado in 1967, the disease has spread widely across North America. Prior to 2000, just Colorado and Wyoming had known cases in wild deer ...

Chronic wasting disease has been detected in just one white-tailed deer on the Blackfeet reservation, but once it's present, it's impossible to eradicate, according to wildlife managers.

Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, is a fatal neurological disease that infects our cervid population. Once it's in an area it's hard to stop from spreading. Watch Now .