The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced the presence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free ranging-deer ...

Tick-borne illnesses remain a serious threat in Maine, according to an annual report released Wednesday by the University of ...

Researchers are using video to study the social interactions between deer in hopes of understanding the spread of chronic ...

What’s widely known as “zombie deer disease” is gradually increasing in the Beehive State. The official name is Chronic ...

Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and ...

University of Maine Cooperative Extension Tick Lab processed 4,776 tick submissions including samples from 398 towns, representing all of Maine’s 16 counties. The majority ...

Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of Creutzfeld Jakob disease. Two have died and a ...

The deer in Adams County, in west-central Illinois, is the first documented case outside of the state's northern CWD-endemic ...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes the lone star tick as “very aggressive,” and it seeks out human ...

The Pennsylvania Game Commission recently used sharpshooters to cull deer in two counties where chronic wasting disease was ...

The disease has been found in Putnam, Marshall, Adams and Peoria counties, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. CWD is found in free-ranging deer populations, and these ...