Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been rapidly spreading among the world’s deer population. The condition has been dubbed by some as ‘zombie deer disease’. Wyoming is currently leading in total ...

Since the state started surveying for cases of CWD in 2002, the disease has been detected in wild white-tailed deer in 20 ...

Researchers reported the death of two hunters who ate venison infected with chronic wasting disease or "zombie deer disease," raising questions about whether the disease may be transmissible to humans ...

Chronic wasting disease, which slowly destroys the brains of deer and elk, is hard to detect, impossible to treat, and spreading across North America. Researchers are mounting new efforts to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Chronic wasting disease might just be the most terrifying ...

Two hunters who ate meat from deer known to have chronic wasting disease − or "zombie deer disease" − developed similar neurological conditions and died, raising concerns that it can pass from animals ...

Images of "Frankenstein" or "zombie" rabbits and squirrels with unusual growths recently started circulating on social media -- and now photos of deer with warts seem to be joining the bizarre trend.

Multiple animals have died in Spokane County from different contagious diseases in recent months. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) confirmed, on Friday, a second case of Chronic ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yosemite National Park has begun trapping and killing deer mice whose growing numbers may have helped create the conditions that led to a hantavirus outbreak that has ...