Tag: Chronic Wasting Disease

Using a new mouse model, researchers detected two unique strains of chronic wasting disease— one carried by elk and another by deer. “These findings suggest that CWD from elk and...

Deer in the Mid-Atlantic may be more susceptible to chronic wasting disease than deer elsewhere, according to recent research, which found they carry more gene markers known to represent a...

Michigan is ramping up its efforts to fight chronic wasting disease. The Detroit Free Press reports that the state Department of Natural Resources is teaming up with Michigan State University...

The Water, Oceans and Wildlife subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee met last week to consider several wildlife conservation bills, in a legislative hearing chaired by Rep. Jared Huffman,...

A controversial theory about chronic wasting disease has gained new attention after a Pennsylvania hunting organization suggested a cure for the fatal disease may be imminent, but wildlife managers and...

TWS recently sent a letter to Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., and Doug Jones, D-Ala., thanking them for addressing the spread of chronic wasting disease. The Chronic Wasting Disease...

A compound in soil could play an important role in combating chronic wasting disease by degrading the prions that cause the lethal disease in cervids, researchers found. CWD has infected...

Senators John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Doug Jones, D-Ala., and Michael Bennet, D-Colo., introduced legislation aimed at increasing the ability of wildlife managers to keep cervid populations healthy. The Chronic Wasting Disease...

State and federal officials have paid Wisconsin deer farmers more than $330,000 so far this year in compensation for eliminating herds believed to be infected with chronic wasting disease. CWD was...

The annual meeting of the Mississippi Chapter of The Wildlife Society featured a wildlife disease/emergency response workshop presented by Wildlife Services’ wildlife disease biologist Jonathan Lewis and feral swine coordinator...