SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (KFVS) - Illinois Department of Natural Resources officials say they have detected chronic wasting disease in deer populations Putnam, Marshall, Adams and Peoria counties.

In 2021 one of Williams’ deer had tested positive for CWD and he reported the incident. That began a months-long battle between the rancher and the state over a management plan to contain and ...

A deadly deer disease has found its way into the urban deer population in Cranbrook, in B.C.'s Kootenay region. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was detected in a female white-tailed deer during a ...

Mar. 18—COLUMBUS — Twenty-four white-tailed deer taken during the 2024-2025 hunting season have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease, including some from Allen and Hardin counties ...

CWD is found in free-ranging deer populations, and these latest added counties are only expanding the geographical presence of the disease. But what is the disease, and what does it entail?

WASHTENAW COUNTY, Mich. — Washtenaw County has reported its first case of chronic wasting disease in a wild deer, according to a community announcement. An adult buck found acting ill in Salem ...

By collecting this footage, researchers are able to create simulated models to hypothesize how Chronic Wasting disease is spread among a white-tailed deer population. In 2023, researchers on the ...

Known as Zombie Deer Disease, the condition's official name is Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)—a highly contagious and deadly neurological disorder affecting deer, elk and moose. The disease gets ...