Select Pennsylvania hunters can mail in deer samples for CWD testing through a new pilot program from the Game Commission.

State officials this week said they have discovered cases of two diseases that could could impact the firearm deer season in different counties in Michigan. Chronic wasting disease has been identified ...

Deer, elk, and moose infected with chronic wasting disease can spread the fatal brain illness to other animals long before they show any outward sign of sickness. Infected cervids shed misfolded ...

Hunters statewide must now dispose of high-risk deer parts, like the head and spine, in the trash. The Game Commission may establish new "no deer feeding" boundaries to help prevent the disease's ...

Photo Credit: iStock Researchers report that chronic wasting disease, or CWD, can leave behind transmissible prions even in animals that show no visible illness, with those materials later causing ...

Chronic wasting disease in deer, a fatal and contagious neurological disease that has been called “the biggest threat to deer hunting,” is quickly spreading across the United States. Though the ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is spreading in the state’s deer herd. There are now potentially too few hunters to control a deer herd that is always looking to expand naturally, and with this ...

CONCORDIA PARISH, La. (Gray Louisiana) — Chronic wasting disease has been detected in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Concordia Parish, according to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and ...

ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – An emaciated deer found in Allegan County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, the state Department of Natural Resources said. The doe is the first to test positive ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is generally associated with animals. But a new study by researchers from the University of Calgary and international collaborators explored the potential for CWD to ...

A Portage County deer farm has been placed under quarantine due to the finding of chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer on its premises, according to an Oct. 10, 2025 announcement from the ...