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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 (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]
Thirteen new cases of Chronic Wasting Disease, known popularly as “zombie deer disease,” have been confirmed by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission from deer samples submitted ...
Of the 751 deer found to have CWD in Texas, 624 (83%) are associated with deer-breeding facilities. The vast majority of Texas hunting ranches do not participate in deer breeding. According to the ...
As of this month, CWD has been detected in in free-ranging cervids (deer or other members of the deer family) in 33 states and four provinces and in captive cervid facilities in 19 states and ...
The commission reports that 13 new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in Cumberland, Surry, Stokes and Yadkin counties, bringing the total number of cases to 24 since the disease ...
A graphic shows detections of chronic wasting disease in wild and captive deer in Wisconsin. The data spans late 2001 to early 2023.
Found in deer in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming in the 1990s, chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been recorded in free-ranging deer, elk and moose in at least 32 states across all parts of ...