State wildlife agencies that once leaned on aggressive deer culls to stop chronic wasting disease are now reassessing their ...

There’s a disease spreading amongst deer in the United States, including northern parishes of Louisiana, that has no cure.

Now, after years of trying to contain it, some officials are abandoning one of their primary control strategies, culling ...

HARTFORD, Conn. — Chronic wasting disease in deer, a fatal and contagious neurological disease that has been called “the ...

For a vampire bat, a neurologically impaired deer is an ideal target. These fist-sized mammals survive solely on blood, ...

Also called chronic wasting disease (CWD), zombie deer disease includes excessive drooling, progressive weight loss, and a ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Wildlife confirmed that 40 white-tailed deer taken during the 2025-26 hunting season tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). A ...

The epidemic that wiped out tens of thousands of deer in southeastern Ohio during summer and fall offered a spectacular reminder of what pathogens in the wild can do. The outbreak of epizootic ...

A second deer sampled in the same county has tested positive at the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostic Laboratory System, and the ...

Not everything is political these days, according to Missouri Department of Conservation Director Jason Sumners, but he acknowledges he knows the management of chronic wasting disease is personal for ...

Another case of chronic wasting disease, an always-fatal disease that infects deer, has been detected in Louisiana outside of the state’s existing disease prevention areas. An adult doe caught in ...

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has established a chronic wasting disease containment zone and plans to kill about 900 deer in the area yet this winter, according to the Minneapolis Star ...