(NEXSTAR) — Deer hunting season is upon us across the Midwest, prompting a reminder from wildlife officials: Be on the lookout for chronic wasting disease, or CWD. CWD is a contagious, fatal, ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called ‘zombie deer disease,’ was first identified in Colorado in 1967. Since its ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - The Wisconsin DNR reminds hunters of the important role they play in the continued efforts for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance and management in Wisconsin. One of the ...

MADISON (AP) -- The spread of chronic wasting disease among Wisconsin's deer herd has long been a concern, but apparently hunters are not all that uneasy about eating tainted venison. Although the ...

ALEXANDRIA, La. (KALB) - Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) announced that a harvested deer in Catahoula Parish was discovered to have been infected with Chronic Wasting Disease ...

CATAHOULA PARISH, La. (KLFY) — The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries is reporting a confirmed case of Chronic Wasting Disease in a hunter-harvested white-tailed buck in Catahoula Parish.

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources announced plans Thursday to test 5,000 hunter-harvested deer this fall for chronic wasting disease, a fatal brain disease in elk, white-tailed deer and ...

There's no guarantee that Virginia's deer herd is free of chronic wasting disease, but results from the latest round of sampling are certainly encouraging. More than 800 Virginia whitetails were ...