The most recent case — a red deer from a deer farm in Wayne County — was confirmed by a USDA lab this spring after it was ...

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks officials established a new Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management Zone comprising Hunting ...

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has established a newChronic Wasting Disease (CWD) Management Zone in Hunting District 170, ...

LDWF schedules public hearings to discuss expanding the CWD Control Area in Louisiana due to rising deer infections.

State wildlife officials have established a new Chronic Wasting Disease management zone surrounding the Flathead County ...

Plus: Three deer in MoCo test positive for chronic wasting disease; Silver Spring man charged after allegedly stabbing ...

That’s really our biggest concern: it spreading to areas we don’t know about.” As of this year, Washington has documented five confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease within state boundaries.

Scientists estimate that when chronic wasting disease prevalence reaches between 7% and 13%, elk populations will decline. Prevalence in western Wyoming elk is thought to be less than 1%.

Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease that affects white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, moose and reindeer, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It has been found in the United States ...