Anyone driving from Warren to Jamestown has likely seen a billboard on the side of Route 62 warning about Chronic Wasting Disease. The disease is a fatal, neurological illness occurring in North ...
Chronic wasting disease slowly turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses, triggering bizarre behavior and, inevitably, a fatal outcome.
It attacks the brain, has a 100 per cent fatality rate, and is spreading quickly through Alberta's deer population. Researchers across western Canada, including Sabine Gilch in Alberta, are working on ...
Two deer in Cleburne County and another deer in Baxter County have tested positive for chronic wasting disease, according to ...
In years past, deer culls initiated by the City of Cranbrook were conducted through the use of clover traps and bolt guns, ...
When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first discovered in Pennsylvania deerhalf a state away, locally the reaction was one of superficial concern. Wishful thinking was that the always-fatal ...
And it has spread all across southern and central Alberta. Fifteen years ago, chronic wasting disease was rare in the province's deer populations, showing up in a small percentage of animals in a ...
Tests have found a deer acting strangely in the Philipsburg area in January did not have chronic wasting disease.
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (AGFC) recently confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) ...
The first elk was found dead in January, followed by the second in early February. Both elk were discovered at the Dell Creek ...
It has a 100 per cent fatality rate. And it has spread all across southern and central Alberta. Fifteen years ago, chronic wasting disease was rare in the province's deer populations, showing up in a ...
Sixty positive cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer were detected during surveillance conducted in eastern Nebraska ...