Dozens of white-tailed deer taken during the 2024-25 hunting season tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, sometimes ...

Ohio hunters have discovered 24 white-tailed deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), also known as 'zombie disease' ...

Michigan Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a case of chronic wasting disease in a Salem Township deer.

West Virginia's containment area for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), or "zombie deer disease," has expanded to another county.

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There is no cure, and the only way to confirm an animal has it — sometimes called “zombie deer disease” — is through lab testing, which requires a sample from the brain stem or lymph nodes.

An incurable infectious brain disease that’s deadly to deer, elk and moose continues to stalk the land. By 2015, it had expanded to 23 states and two ...

“We will share the final number of animals removed after work is complete.” Chronic wasting disease — also known as CWD or “zombie deer disease” — spreads through highly infectious prions, deformed ...

Chronic Wasting Disease during the 2024-25 hunting season in Ohio, with most infected animals found in Allen, Hardin, Marion, ...

Chronic wasting disease — also known as CWD or “zombie deer disease” — spreads through highly infectious prions, deformed proteins that accumulate in the animal's body. Those prions pass ...