With deer season in full swing, it's a good time to take a look at a couple of diseases that can influence the state's deer populations. As we all know, wildlife can get diseases, just like humans. In ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WTAP) - More dead deer from hemorrhagic disease have been reported. On Tuesday, the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources said 75 deer have been reported for suspected HD by ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A fatal disease among deer that may cause abnormal behavior including a lack of fear of humans is inching closer to the Columbus area. The Ohio Division of Wildlife has ...

Chronic wasting disease is slowly spreading through Louisiana deer populations. (Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries) A fatal disease that primarily impacts deer is slowly creeping through ...

Chronic Wasting Disease, better known as CWD, is an always-fatal prion that infects cervids (deer, moose, elk, brocket). Prions are proteins that many mammal species make, but when they become ...

MARSHFIELD, Mo. — Rifle season for deer hunting opened on November 15 in Missouri, with hunters in certain counties required to test their deer for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The testing ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The Ohio Division of Wildlife is tracking an outbreak of a deadly disease among deer by asking residents to report animals displaying symptoms, including disorientation and a ...

For decades, chronic wasting disease has plagued Colorado’s deer, elk and moose herds. While Colorado Parks and Wildlife has been working to manage and respond to outbreaks of the fatal neurological ...

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 ...

This Pennsylvania Game Commission deer head collection bin has sat in the Salisbury Township Office parking lot off Route 340 for the past few years. Pennsylvania hunters worried about deer they’ve ...

SUGARLOAF TWP. — A deer-killing disease that invaded this winter is here to stay. “CWD like glitter. Once you have it, there’s no way to get rid of it,” Andrea Korman, a biologist specializing in CWD ...

Chronic wasting disease is slowly spreading through Louisiana deer populations.