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Chronic Wasting Disease Detected for First Time in Yellowstone National Park

Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic Wasting Disease Detected for First Time in Yellowstone National Park

Chronic Wasting Disease has officially reached Yellowstone National Park. The first confirmed case in a mule deer underscores the growing challenge facing wildlife managers as a fatal disease continues to spread through deer, elk, and moose populations across the American West.

CWD Research, Insights Shared At Deer Associates Gathering

Chronic Wasting Disease

CWD Research, Insights Shared At Deer Associates Gathering

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is the “greatest threat” to whitetail deer, and it’s a threat that is here to stay.

Two Hunters Died of Rare Prion Disease. Doctors Suspect a First-of-Its Kind Deer Transmission

Chronic Wasting Disease

Two Hunters Died of Rare Prion Disease. Doctors Suspect a First-of-Its Kind Deer Transmission

Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven.

This is a picture of two deer who have contacted Chronic Wasting Disease. They appear sick.

Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic Wasting Disease Ends Decades of Kerr Deer Research

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said Friday that a captive, white-tailed deer in the Kerr Wildlife Management Area tested positive for chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological disease sometimes called “zombie deer” disease.

Scientists to Study ‘Walking-Dead’ Deer in Wyoming’s Most CWD-Infected Herd

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Scientists to Study ‘Walking-Dead’ Deer in Wyoming’s Most CWD-Infected Herd

As reported below, 98% of the animals in one of Wyoming’s deer herds have Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Infection rates like these will soon make Wyoming, Montana and Idaho the national leaders of the epidemic. Obvious ways to control CWD include stopping practices such as winter feeding that everyone

Support for Mitigating Catastrophic Wildfire Damage and Environmental CWD Contamination Using Wild Horse Grazing.

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Support for Mitigating Catastrophic Wildfire Damage and Environmental CWD Contamination Using Wild Horse Grazing

“Three seemingly unsolvable problems facing forest, range and wildlife managers are (1) increasing numbers and severity of wildfires, (2) the relentless spread of CWD, and (3) what to do about wild horses. What if a significant partial solution to all three is found in the so-called problem itself?

Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic Wasting Disease Test Developed by Scientists

“A very good discussion of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and a new test for live animals. NOTE: this article was originally published to APNews.com on April 17, 2021. It was written by Brent French. BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Scientists have developed a new way to test live animals for chronic

Emergency Order Issued After 6 Breeding Facilities Test Positive for ‘zombie Deer’ Disease

Chronic Wasting Disease

Emergency Order Issued After 6 Breeding Facilities Test Positive for 'Zombie Deer' Disease

The article below discusses Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) which is spreading through Texas and the West at an accelerating rate. As we have written in the “Philosophy” section of this blog: “Confinement livestock operations take animals off the range where they efficiently convert the sun’s energy in the form

First Feedground-Region Elk Contracts CWD

Chronic Wasting Disease

First Feedground-Region Elk Contracts CWD

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a rapidly spreading, invariably-fatal brain disease which is decimating North American deer and elk. It is now found in Yellowstone and Grand Teton’s elk. In addition, the herds of elk, bison and cattle in and around Yellowstone exist in close proximity and infect

Using Wolves as First Responders Against a Deadly Brain Disease

Using Wolves as First Responders Against a Deadly Brain Disease

Some scientists say that the predators are essential to curbing the spread of Chronic Wasting Disease because they pick off weak deer.