Chronic wasting disease might just be the most terrifying illness you’ve never heard of. It slowly ... [+] turns the brains of infected deer (and ... effect in the brain. To understand how ...

It attacks the brain. 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 ...

A deer farm in southern Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, has been quarantined for chronic wasting disease. The farm recently ...

When the presence of Chronic Wasting Disease was first ... was that the always-fatal neurological disease caused by a misfoldedprotein called prions in deer and elk would somehow contain itself.

Samples taken from deer in Nebraska last year found an increase in cases of chronic wasting disease, but Game and Parks' ...

(KOLN) - Sixty positive cases of Chronic Wasting Disease in deer ... CWD is a deadly disease that attacks the brain of infected deer, elk and moose. Surveillance of the disease in Nebraska is ...

Tests have found a deer acting strangely in the Philpsburg area in January did not have chronic wasting disease.

In years past, deer culls initiated by the City of Cranbrook were conducted through the use of clover traps and bolt guns, ...

The province is backing the capture, killing and testing of hundreds of urban deer across two B.C. municipalities. Their goal: find out if chronic wasting disease has ... spreading the brain disease ...

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 ...

It attacks the brain. 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 ...