The 2024-2025 Chronic Wasting Disease report from DWR recorded 109 positive detections in the over 8,100 deer it tested across Virginia. In our hometowns, Roanoke County saw its first-ever ...

Georgia DNR confirmed a second case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a deer in Berrien County, near the first case in Lanier County. Here's more.

Missouri has an estimated population of more than 1.5 million white-tailed deer in the state. CWD is a 100% fatal disease in white-tailed deer and other members of the deer family. The disease has ...

No case of chronic wasting disease has been discovered south of Adams County, in Illinois. The cases in Putnam, Marshall and Adams counties were discovered during routine surveillance of hunter ...

Bedford and Fulton, southcentral counties, have produced 90% of the known CWD-positive deer since the disease’s discovery in Pennsylvania in 2012. Since then, the agency discovered 1,273 cases ...

Having a single deer test positive for CWD in a county, Caudell said, merely proves the presence of the disease, but likely means it is of “low prevalence. It might mean it is 1-to-5 percent (of ...

CWD is caused by a normal protein, called a prion, that folds incorrectly. It is transmitted through direct animal-to-animal contact or by contact with saliva, urine, feces, blood, carcass parts ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — Washtenaw County is now the 15th county in the state where the Department of Natural Resources has identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) in the wild deer population. A ...

Since chronic wasting disease was first detected in wild deer in 2015, more than 109,000 deer have been tested for CWD in Michigan. In total, more than 143,000 wild deer have been tested since ...

Chronic wasting disease expanded into two new North Dakota hunting units last year, though the fatal deer disease still remains documented only in the western half of the state.

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks reports chronic washing disease (CWD) prevalence is increasing in much of northeastern Montana. The disease, which is 100% fatal in cervids ...

Officials say recent cases in Concordia, St. Landry and Tangipahoa parishes are linked to trace outs from a captive CWD positive deer pen in Jefferson Davis Parish, where CWD was confirmed last fall.