The Pennsylvania Game Commission has announced that two deer have tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a new area. The adult male deers who tested positive were in Luzerne County and ...

CJD is rare but fatal. The UK NHS lists possible symptoms including loss of intellect and memory, changes in personality, ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission and the state Department of Agriculture announced Friday two deer have tested positive for ...

Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a group of fatal neurodegenerative diseases that include bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie in sheep, and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease ...

During the archery season in September, a hunter killed a young buck just west of U.S. Highway 63 between Houston and Licking ...

It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases. The DNR began monitoring the state’s wild white-tailed deer population for CWD in 1999 ...

The CDC states that CWD is a prion disease or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Other TSEs include bovine spongiform encephalopathy or “mad cow disease” in cattle and scrapie in sheep ...