Faced with a rash of shark deaths marked by brain swelling, Canadian and American scientists are trying to solve a marine mystery.

Immune cells called regulatory T cells have long been known for their role in countering inflammation. In the setting of ...

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes report a mule deer shot on the northern portion of the reservation has tested ...

There is a risk of chronic wasting disease, also known as CWD, jumping from animals like deer over to humans, according to a ...

Ending the spread of CWD appears unlikely because the prions, which cluster in the brain and nervous system, can be ...

A fatal neurological illness that affects deer known as chronic wasting disease has been detected in Georgia for the first ...

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.

Researchers have identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in raw, cooked, and cured meat from an infected elk in Texas ...

There have been 67 confirmed bird flu cases across 10 states since March, with 40 of those cases linked to exposure from infected dairy cows. About two dozen of those cases have been linked to ...

One of the ways the CDC has stepped up its surveillance of H5N1 infections in people is by asking state public health laboratories to perform additional testing on all patient samples that test ...

"If they can get infected, surely it's possible domestic ... It's caused by abnormal prion proteins that damage the brain and nervous system, leading to behavioural changes resembling zombie ...