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

SCIENTISTS have warned ‘zombie deer disease’, fatal to every animal it infects, has potential to spread to humans. Medically ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirms the first positive test result for chronic waste disease (CWD) ...

UK ministers may lift a ban introduced during the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) crisis on the use of animal remains ...

This hunter-harvested, 1-year-old buck is the first wild CWD-positive deer in Chippewa County, according to the Wisconsin DNR ...

After many years of controversies (some of which are still raging), prions are now believed to be the infectious agents responsible for the transmission of TSEs. [3,4,5,6,7,8,9] They appear to be ...

Opens in a new tab or window In early 2024, we reported new research that suggested Alzheimer's disease may be transmissible under rare conditions. The study fueled debates in the Alzheimer's ...

NORTH MANKATO — Two professional hunters killed 15 deer recently in North Mankato’s first effort to reduce the deer population. Tom Hagen, who lives on the bottom of the bluff on Lake Street ...

Bird flu could be mutating to become more transmissible to humans, scientists have warned, as the US reported its first severe case that left one woman hospitalised. So far 65 confirmed human ...

(The Hill) – A genetic analysis of viral samples from a patient in Louisiana hospitalized with the first severe case of bird flu showed mutations that may result in the virus becoming more ...