Some studies in animals, including non-human primates, have found evidence that chronic wasting disease prions could potentially infect and sicken humans, but other research hasn’t.

Despite ongoing efforts to curtail its spread in the U.S. and abroad, the lethal chronic wasting disease (CWD) remains a threat — with no vaccine or cure. In 2005, the “zombie deer” disease ...

In the lineup of wildlife diseases across the country, few are more studied and yet still more mysterious than chronic wasting disease. The prion disease, first identified in a Colorado research ...

Brahic is a French microbiologist who’s been connected to the world of prions for decades. Though he personally focused on unraveling the viral triggers of brain diseases, he was an early ...

The most concentrated sites for chronic wasting disease prions in affected animals are the brain, spinal column, and lymph nodes. Other tissues and fluids have also included them, although in much ...

Chronic wasting disease is what’s called a “prion disease,” named for the misfolded proteins that cause it. It infects animals like deer and elk and causes neurodegenerative disorders.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease that affects deer, elk, reindeer, sika deer, and moose (e.g., members of the cervid species). CWD has been found in some areas of North America, ...

Scientists and experts have expressed concern that this disease may be linked to a human disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), which is caused by misfolded proteins known as prions. Prion ...

Even though chronic wasting disease falls, along with mad cow, under the umbrella of prion disorders affecting animals, experts have said no strong evidence exists to indicate that prions seen in ...

POWELL — Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and even humans from direct contact with or environmental ...

Though prion diseases are, in some cases, contagious, a federal study earlier this year concluded that chronic wasting disease, found in deer, elk and moose, is very unlikely to pass to people who ...