Nearer to central Ohio, moreover, another lethal malady with nowhere near the kill count of EHD is moving glacially through the deer population. Chronic wasting disease, aka CWD, not only is spreading ...

A free seminar on Chronic Wasting Disease is scheduled at Penn College for March 28 with speaker Marcelo Jorge, a University of Georgia researcher and professor of wildlife habitat management. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jan. 28—BROOKLYN CENTER — Chronic wasting disease has reached the endemic stage in the southeast corner of Minnesota. It means ...

Testing during the 2025 season shows prevalence of the disease reaching more than 5% in three southeast deer permit areas, meaning culling is no longer effective there. Minnesota received 121 positive ...

Missouri Department of Conservation staff, including Sarah Billington, center, handles a white-tailed deer at a sampling site in Columbia, Missouri, on November 15, 2025. Columbia, Mo. — The pick-up ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The pickup trucks pulled into the parking lot every 10 minutes or so. One after another, drivers rolled down their windows and staff greeted them like restaurant workers taking ...

Thirty-six states have detected cases of CWD, but many hunters are more fearful of losing game than the disease itself. Columbia, Mo. — The pick-up trucks pulled into the parking lot every 10 minutes ...

State wildlife officials detected upwards of 400 cases of chronic wasting disease during the 2025-26 hunting season, as the fatal illness continues to impact deer and elk populations across the state.

Oregon is one of the last remaining safe zones from chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness that has killed tens of thousands of deer, elk and moose across North America. Of the western states, only ...

With just over 14,000 chronic wasting disease samples collected from deer this hunting season, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reports confirmed cases of the disease are up nearly 26 ...