You've probably heard of mad cow disease, but what about zombie deer disease? Officially called chronic wasting disease, this ...

A fatal neurological illness that affects deer known as chronic wasting disease has been detected in Georgia for the first time, state wildlife officials announced Thursday.

Georgia wildlife officials have confirmed the state's first-ever case of CWD in a hunter-harvested whitetail buck.

CWD was first discovered in 1967 in Fort Collins, Colorado. CWD is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk, and moose caused by infectious, misfolded proteins called prions. There are no current ...

A deer shot by a hunter in South Georgia has tested positive for Chronic-Wasting Disease (CWD), the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported Thursday. The two-and-a-half-year-old male ...

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Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Park officials presented a chronic wasting disease update discussing what Whitefish can do to ...

LAKELAND, Ga. (WSAV) – The first positive case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Georgia was confirmed Wednesday by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The fatal neurological disease ...

The Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the state’s first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a white-tailed deer.

The prion disease that causes deer, elk and other cervids to waste away could someday jump to humans, but many hunters are ...

For the first time, an elk has tested positive for chronic wasting disease on a western Wyoming wapiti feedground, areas that ...

Twenty-three years after the first detections were reported, chronic wasting disease continues to spread geographically and ...