A practical, hunter-focused guide to chronic wasting disease, how it spreads, and what to do before deer season begins.

Pennsylvanian hunters can now participate in a pilot project by the PA Game Commission.

Select Pennsylvania hunters can mail in deer samples for CWD testing through a new pilot program from the Game Commission.

State officials this week said they have discovered cases of two diseases that could could impact the firearm deer season in different counties in Michigan. Chronic wasting disease has been identified ...

Hunters statewide must now dispose of high-risk deer parts, like the head and spine, in the trash. The Game Commission may establish new "no deer feeding" boundaries to help prevent the disease's ...

Deer, elk, and moose infected with chronic wasting disease can spread the fatal brain illness to other animals long before they show any outward sign of sickness. Infected cervids shed misfolded ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is spreading in the state’s deer herd. There are now potentially too few hunters to control a deer herd that is always looking to expand naturally, and with this ...

A Portage County deer farm has been placed under quarantine due to the finding of chronic wasting disease in a white-tailed deer on its premises, according to an Oct. 10, 2025 announcement from the ...

FRANKFORT, Kentucky, November 2, 2025 (ENS) – In Kentucky, a second wild deer has been confirmed with chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurologic disease that infects deer, elk and moose. Officials ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is generally associated with animals. But a new study by researchers from the University of Calgary and international collaborators explored the potential for CWD to ...