It attacks the brain, has a 100 per cent fatality rate, and is spreading quickly through Alberta's deer population.

Anyone driving from Warren to Jamestown has likely seen a billboard on the side of Route 62 warning about Chronic Wasting Disease. The disease is a fatal, neurological illness occurring in North ...

A mysterious disease is spreading among deer populations in the U.S., and scientists are calling it ‘Zombie Deer’ Disease.

Two deer in Cleburne County and another deer in Baxter County have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to ...

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Pennsylvania deerhalf a state away, locally the reaction was one of superficial concern. Wishful thinking was that the always-fatal ...

In years past, deer culls initiated by the City of Cranbrook were conducted through the use of clover traps and bolt guns, ...

Chronic wasting disease might just be the most terrifying illness you’ve never heard of. It slowly ... [+] turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses ...

And it has spread all across southern and central Alberta. Fifteen years ago, chronic wasting disease was rare in the province's deer populations, showing up in a small percentage of animals in a ...

Three more deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Louisiana, one of them in St. Landry Parish, officials ...

Sixty positive cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer were detected during surveillance conducted in eastern Nebraska ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) recently confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) ...

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 ...