The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources has expanded the Chronic Wasting Disease Containment Area after detecting CWD ...
Putting out food like corn and apples for deer can also congregate large groups of animals and has been linked to the spread of chronic wasting disease (often referred to as zombie deer disease).
Deer hunting is a big deal in many U.S. states ... devastating to animals that are affected by it. They take on a “zombie-like” state and exhibit odd behavior and physical deteriorating ...
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KENTUCKY (WFIE) - A bill in Kentucky would make it illegal to take deer outside a Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance Zone.
An incurable infectious brain disease that’s deadly to deer, elk and moose continues to stalk the land. By 2015, it had expanded to 23 states and two ...
A provincial biologist says he's optimistic that the so-called "zombie deer" disease can be contained in Manitoba, after only four positive cases of chronic wasting disease were found among the ...
There is no cure, and the only way to confirm an animal has it — sometimes called “zombie deer disease” — is through lab testing, which requires a sample from the brain stem or lymph nodes.