Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Do deer farms increase the risk that wild deer like this buck will contract a contagious and deadly neurological disease? Opinions ...

Yellowstone National Park‘s first case of “zombie deer disease’ was confirmed at on Tuesday — a horrific illness that gradually shuts down the deer’s body. The National Park Service confirmed the case ...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is reminding deer and elk hunters who bag an animal this fall to have it tested for chronic wasting disease. The disease, which has never been confirmed in ...

The study focused on pregnant, free-ranging whitetails that were harvested from the southeastern U.S. Experts studying chronic wasting disease in free-ranging and captive deer populations have ...

Pennsylvania’s abundant deer population is one of its most striking natural features. According to Penn State University, the state averages about 30 deer per square mile of land. However, an ...

Chronic Wasting Disease, better known as CWD, is an always-fatal prion that infects cervids (deer, moose, elk, brocket). Prions are proteins that many mammal species make, but when they become ...

A Rock County deer farm is under quarantine after the finding of chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer on its premises, according to a May 29 announcement from the Department of Agriculture, ...

Minnesota’s chronic wasting disease cases rose about 26% this hunting season, driven by an endemic southeast hotspot, but ...

A deer that was hunted in B.C.'s Kootenay region has tested positive for chronic wasting disease, bringing the total number of cases reported in the province up to nine.