A recently-wrapped Univ. of Minnesota study suggests CWD could potentially be spread to other venison if butchering equipment isn't cleaned properly. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

CWD is contagious and believed to be spread when an animal comes in contact with an infected animal’s saliva, blood, urine, feces, or carcass. It may also spread through the environment, the CDC ...

Here's where "zombie deer disease" has been reported so far: Reports of chronic wasting disease in the U.S. and abroad. Chronic wasting disease has been found in animal populations in at least 31 ...

What We Don’t Know. While CWD is not thought to pose a risk to humans, health experts acknowledge it is difficult to know for sure. Prion diseases are poorly understood and hard to diagnose with ...

CWD is contagious and believed to be spread when an animal comes in contact with an infected animal’s saliva, blood, urine, feces, or carcass. It may also spread through the environment, the CDC ...

The MDC also offers free voluntary CWD sampling and testing of harvested deer through Jan. 15 at select locations throughout the state.There are also self-service freezer deer-head drop-off ...

The test, called "MN-QuIC," uses nanoparticles to identify CWD prions in tissue samples. It is cheaper and uses field equipment to deliver results in 24 hours.

New cases of CWD, chronic wasting disease, were detected in N.C. by the Wildlife Resources Commission. Here's what you should know.

Newton said CWD exists among wild deer in about 11 states that have no deer farms. Since the start of CWD restrictions within the industry, the number of high-fence deer operations in Pennsylvania ...

Since 2016, when the DNR was first informed of the farm's disease problem, the state has paid for the testing of more than 8,600 deer harvested by hunters in a CWD management zone around the farm.

CWD is contagious and believed to be spread when an animal comes in contact with an infected animal’s saliva, blood, urine, feces, or carcass. It may also spread through the environment, the CDC ...