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

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

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

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

Deer in Georgia are at risk of contracting a neurological disease with a 100 percent mortality rate. One deer in southern Georgia was found to have the infectious pathogen in its system.

Meanwhile, on Jan. 6, 2025, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first human death from bird ... likely spread from wild birds to a cow in Texas, and then spread from ...

don't infect human brain tissue, according to Science News. The most common prion disease in people is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Another prion disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD ...

SCIENTISTS have warned 'zombie deer disease', fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans ... such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). "Studies have shown the possibility ...

(NewsNation) — Researchers are warning that chronic wasting disease (CWD) — also known as “zombie deer” disease — could spill over to humans. A new report from ... Prion diseases, which include mad ...

This news comes days after a report from the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota outlined the potential threat of CWD spreading from deer to other wild ...