A fatal disease among deer that may cause abnormal behavior including a lack of fear of humans is inching closer to the ...

Neurodegenerative diseases are a heterogeneous group of disorders that are characterized by the progressive degeneration of the structure and function of the central nervous system or peripheral ...

Rainwater Prizes honor researchers worldwide who are advancing discoveries for diseases caused by tau protein accumulations ...

Authorities detected the cases in Concordia, St Landry, and Tangipahoa parishes after tracing them back to a CWD-positive ...

Two male deer have tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the county's first ...

A public meeting will be held Feb. 27 to discuss the impacts of the discovery of chronic wasting disease in two deer in ...

The fight over chronic wasting disease in North Dakota has turned into a new front in the culture wars where valid criticism ...

Starting next deer season, hunters in south Georgia will have the option to drop off the heads of deer they take to be tested ...

Georgia's first-ever case of the deer disease -- which is 100% fatal -- was reported last week in south Georgia.

There is a risk of chronic wasting disease, also known as CWD, jumping from animals like deer over to humans, according to a new report from researchers at the University of Minnesota. The report, ...

Ending the spread of CWD appears unlikely because the prions, which cluster in the brain and nervous system, can be transmitted in many of ways.

Mad cow disease infected and killed a few people who ate prion-tainted beef. No medical treatment exists for stopping a prion disease in an infected animal. Ending the spread of CWD appears ...