Chronic Wasting Disease was detected in a deer in Carbon County for the first time, the Pennsylvania Game Commission ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced a CWD-positive deer has been detected in Carbon County. The deer, an adult male, was detected in Packer Township, Carbon County. This detection is the first ...

Tests five days later revealed Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD), a degenerative brain disorder that has been compared to Mad Cow Disease. The condition mostly afflicts patients at random ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission said these newly detected cases were detected in Luzerne County. The deer were both adult ...

The incurable disease was first detected in Louisiana in 2022. With no vaccine, Louisiana has worked with hunters to track ...

Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD is a neurological disease that affects animals such as deer, mule deer, elk, and moose ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is often called the human form of mad cow disease, and presents as rapidly presenting dementia. CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission is reporting that two deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a new ...

It is simiilar to mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. CWD spreads animal to animal as well as through contaminated environments. Once in the soil, CWD prions can ...

It’s classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) and is similar to scrapie in sheep, mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans, the Game Commission said.