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The National Park Service received positive test results for Chronic Wasting Disease of two deer in Antietam National Battlefield.
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]
The commission reports that 13 new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in Cumberland, Surry, Stokes and Yadkin counties, bringing the total number of cases to 24 since the disease ...
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 Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation is an agency of the state of Oklahoma responsible for managing and protecting Oklahoma's wildlife population and their habitats. The Department is under the control of the Wildlife Conservation Commission , [ 2 ] an 8-member board appointed by the Governor of Oklahoma with the approval of the ...
On April 11 the Department of Natural Resources confirmed the first positive CWD test result in a wild deer in Waushara County. The 3-year-old buck was found dead in early February in the town of ...
EHD has been found in some domestic ruminants and many species of deer including white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, and pronghorn antelope. [4] Seropositive black-tailed deer , fallow deer , red deer , wapiti , and roe deer have also been found, which essentially means that they were exposed to the disease at some time in the past but may not ...
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 ...