Just in time for deer season, Michigan is facing three major diseases among white-tailed deer.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is calling on hunters to help track chronic wasting disease by submitting harvested deer from five counties for testing during the 2026 hunting season. The ...

(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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the opening of the earliest deer season less than a month away, the Missouri Department of Conservation this week announced a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A white-tailed deer is photographed in a pen at a Wisconsin deer farm. Two more captive cervid facilities in Wisconsin are under ...

Chronic wasting disease outlives the deer it kills. Wildlife managers have culled entire deer herds and waited as long as six years before reintroducing animals to affected areas – only to see the ...

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources confirmed three positive cases of chronic wasting disease in wild white-tailed deer during last year’s hunting season in Noble, Franklin and Rush counties.

Delaware has confirmed a third case of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in a white-tailed deer in central Sussex County. The new detection expands the state’s Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zone (CMZ ...