Something different this year, however, is the disease was found in two units where it previously had not been detected. One was Unit 2B near Grand Forks, where one whitetail deer tested positive for ...

Nine deer were found with chronic wasting disease in northwest Alabama during the 2025-2026 season, says the Alabama ...

In February, a harvested deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Cimmaron County. This became the fourth deer in ...

EAST LANSING, Mich — It’s almost invisible. Nearly indestructible. And always fatal. Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD is a contagious neurological disease caused by a misfolded protein— called a prion— ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two hunters who ate meat from a population of deer known to have chronic wasting disease − or “zombie deer disease” − developed ...

A new case of chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in northeast Louisiana, raising continued concerns among wildlife ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Chronic wasting disease might just be the most terrifying ...

Chronic wasting disease is slowly spreading through Louisiana deer populations.

Chronic wasting disease — a fatal illness that eats away at the brains of deer, elk and moose — threatens wildlife and hunting economies across the Midwest and Great Plains. Chronic wasting disease — ...

For decades, chronic wasting disease has plagued Colorado’s deer, elk and moose herds. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been working to manage and respond to outbreaks of the fatal neurological ...

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 ...