If shut down, inmates from the prisons would be transferred to the other 22 state prison facilities scattered across the ...

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

There’s been another dead deer that has tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in Pennsylvania, just a few weeks after officials announced finding other ...

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 ...

The Luzerne County detections are 40 miles from the nearest wild CWD detection. They will ultimately result in disease ...

A fatal disease among deer that may cause abnormal behavior including a lack of fear of humans is inching closer to the Columbus area. The Ohio Division of Wildlife ...

In a new study, researchers have also demonstrated that these prions can experimentally transmit the disease to mice.

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission announced Wednesday an additional chronic wasting disease-positive deer has been detected in the northeastern part of the state.

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