In a rare bit of good news about chronic wasting disease, a new paper shows that harvesting more deer — specifically adult bucks — is better for slowing the spread of the contagious neurological ...

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Georgia Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has confirmed the first-ever case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in the state. The disease was found in a hunter-harvested deer in Lanier County.

Cases confirmed in two adult bucks — one in DPA 266 near Hawley, Minnesota, and the other in DPA 701 near Greenfield in Hennepin County. Chronic wasting disease has been confirmed in two deer ...

The purpose of this study was to determine how CWD impacts deer populations. This involved estimating deer survival rates and how they were influenced by CWD. Fieldwork for this project took place ...

Two hours before a special hunt in 2002 to test for chronic wasting disease (CWD), this doe and her fawn stand alert in a field just south of Clayton, Minn. (Brian Peterson/The Minnesota Star Tribune) ...

An adult cow elk found dead on the Scab Creek feedground in late December tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease. This marks the third documented case of the disease in Wyoming’s Elk Hunt Area 98 ...

LANIER COUNTY, Ga. - 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 disease, a fatal ...

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. The Georgia case was ...

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BOISE, Idaho — Two weeks following the first-ever case of Chronic Wasting Disease in domesticated elk in Idaho, the Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) confirmed a second case.

WHITEFISH, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Park officials presented a chronic wasting disease update discussing what Whitefish can do to prevent the disease spreading during a Whitefish City ...