Both free-ranging and captive animals have previously tested positive in the county, which is surrounded by other ...

Agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) usually enter the body via a peripheral route and replicate in lymphoreticular tissues before moving into the brain. Any impairment of the ...

Researchers at the Cornell Wildlife Health Lab are leading interagency efforts to prevent the spread of chronic wasting disease in New York and in the United States. CWD is a transmissible spongiform ...

Last year Minnesota reported 70 measles cases, but zero in 2023. In Mexico, a large ongoing measles outbreak has now resulted ...

Unconventional infectious agents cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) diseases including scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in animals and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), the diseases caused by proteinaceous infectious particles, or prions, comprise a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that take their name from ...

I was digging through my parents’ basement earlier this year at their request, trying to cart off any old outdoor gear I’d left behind that was in danger of getting thrown in the trash. I came across ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is sounding the alarm about Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and has implemented a new law prohibiting the feeding of wild deer, elk, and ...

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is an insidious disease afflicting deer, elk and moose populations in three-dozen states across the country, including ours. The symptoms, which may not appear for months ...

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Wildlife Biologist Steve Easterly informed me CWD (chronic wasting disease) ...

An ongoing epidemiological investigation has found at least 30 positive cases for chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer at six Texas deer breeding facilities. A deer breeding operation in ...