The B.C. Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship said initial testing by a provincial lab on a sample taken from the male white-tailed deer, that was killed east of Enderby, indicated it ...

Two hunters who ate meat from a population of deer known to have chronic wasting disease − or "zombie deer disease" − developed similar neurological conditions and died, raising concerns that it can ...

The British Columbia government says testing has confirmed a sample from a deer harvested in the Okanagan region was negative ...

Two hunters who ate meat from deer known to have chronic wasting disease − or "zombie deer disease" − developed similar neurological conditions and died, raising concerns that it can pass from animals ...

A new study of prion diseases, using a human cerebral organoid model, suggests there is a substantial species barrier preventing transmission of chronic wasting disease (CWD) from cervids -- deer, elk ...

Hunters with freezers full of meat in B.C.’s Okanagan say they feel left in the dark after the provincial government announced that it is investigating a potential case of chronic wasting disease.

Zombie deer disease, also known as chronic wasting disease (CWD), continues to spread across the U.S., threatening at-risk white-tailed deer – and potentially the hunters who kill and eat them.

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Since 2013, chronic wasting disease has been detected in more than 500 deer across 31 Iowa counties. The Iowa Department of ...

Wild Bulletin, Indiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Fish and Wildlife: Researchers at Purdue University are studying the willingness of hunters and nonhunters to help reduce the spread of ...

Iowa is shifting focus from eradicating chronic wasting disease to instead “mitigating its spread and managing its impacts.” ...