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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]
Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose. It is caused by a infectious, malformed prion, or protein, that affects the animal's brain.
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 ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission urges hunters in Disease Management Areas to have their deer tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and to consider participating in a new extended antlerless ...
The disease was found in a deer sampled for routine surveillance in Lanier County, according to the Department of Natural Resources. A hunter harvested the 2½-year-old deer in late November, the ...
Up to 800 samples of chronic wasting disease were found in deer, elk and moose (Getty Images) In the UK, 4.4m cattle were slaughtered after mad cow disease spread in the 1980s and 1990s due to ...
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, poses a serious threat to Texas’ deer population, especially in light of the recent outbreak in captive deer — with more than 15 new CWD-positive facilities ...
Deer population may be negatively impacted by infectious disease in the population, such as chronic wasting disease. Chronic wasting disease is present in 25 states in the United States, three Canadian provinces, Finland, Norway, and South Korea. Chronic wasting disease was first discovered in white-tailed deer and elk in 1978. Chronic wasting ...