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 disease has no cure or preventative measures at this time, said Emily Wood, executive director of the Indiana Wildlife Federation.So if an animal is infected, it will die. More: Why this deer ...

As of April 2022, chronic wasting disease has been detected in 40 of Colorado's 54 mule and white-tailed deer herds, 17 of 42 elk herds and two of nine moose herds.

"Zombie deer," deer afflicted with a prion wasting disease, are found in more and more areas. ... Chronic wasting disease was first reported in Colorado in the late 1960s.

Maryland DNR has detected chronic wasting disease in a Howard Co. deer for the 1st time. A DNR expert spoke with Patch about the disease.

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 ...

Ten deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease during the 2024-25 hunting season, mainly in Triad counties. What hunters and farmers need to know about the fatal "zombie deer" disease: ...

Deer with chronic wasting disease typically have a wide, wobbly stance. They keep their heads down, ears low, and have a very shaggy coat. These deer are prone to excessive thirst, heavy urination ...

Chronic wasting disease, which attacks brains of deer, elk and moose, has infected up to 16 percent of male animals tested in parts of Colorado, data show — compelling state wildlife managers… ...

Ten deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease during the 2024-25 hunting season, mainly in Triad counties. What hunters and farmers need to know about the fatal "zombie deer" disease: ...

The disease was first identified in captive deer in the 1960s and in wild deer in the 1990s and has now been reported in at least 29 states in the continental U.S., according to government data.