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Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer.TSEs are a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. [2]
A white-tailed deer showing symptoms of chronic wasting disease (M. W. Miller, Colorado Division of Wildlife, via the Associated Press)
For the 2023 testing year in Wisconsin, 1,586 deer were CWD-positive out of 17,314 analyzed, or 9.2%, according to the DNR. The number and the percentage of positives were highest since the DNR ...
Testing in 2023-24 found 1,586 white-tailed deer with chronic wasting disease in Wisconsin, the most since testing began about 25 years ago. DNR reports record-high number of CWD-positive deer in ...
Chronic wasting disease reaches North Carolina Triangle. It causes microscopic holes in the brains of deer. ... The deer that tested positive was a 3 1/2-year-old female white-tailed deer that was ...
The Wildlife Resources Commission reports 13 new cases of chronic wasting disease in multiple counties including Cumberland County. ... A white-tailed deer, one of the animals that can be possibly ...
The ban is linked to a CWD-positive 5-year-old white-tailed buck at Heavy Horn Whitetails LLC, a shooting preserve in Cascade, according to the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer ...
Caudell said the white-tailed deer with CWD was a male that a hunter took in Milford Township, in the southeastern corner of LaGrange County. The nearby Michigan case was several years ago, in a ...