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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 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 ...

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 .

That disease is chronic wasting disease. It’s also often referred to as “zombie deer disease.” The condition is found in a class of animals called cervids, including elk, moose and deer.

Chronic wasting disease — a major threat to deer populations in several states — isn't a problem in New York yet, and state wildlife officials want to keep it that way. With the regular gun ...