The new findings bring Maryland's total of confirmed CWD cases to 285 since the fatal prion disease was first confirmed in ...

Maryland DNR has detected chronic wasting disease in a Howard Co. deer for the 1st time. A DNR expert spoke with Patch about ...

Maryland wildlife officials say chronic wasting disease (CWD) is spreading again—this time into a new part of the state. The ...

The National Park Service has found its first cases of chronic wasting disease in Maryland with three white-tailed deer testing positive. Two were found at Antietam National Battlefield and one at ...

Chronic Wasting Disease affects the spinal and brain tissues of wild deer and elk in 24 U.S. states and was first identified in a captive Colorado deer herd in the 1960s.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources received laboratory confirmation on Feb. 28 that a second white-tailed deer harvested in Maryland tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

ALLEGANY COUNTY, Md. (WJZ) -- Chronic wasting disease is an illness lethal to deer that has surfaced for the first time in Maryland. Alex DeMetrick reports the big question is how many deer in ...

Chronic wasting disease has been found in deer, elk, reindeer and moose in areas of North America, Canada, Norway and South Korea. (J. Irwin/Classicstock/Getty Images) ...

Also known as chronic wasting disease, "zombie deer disease" is a prion disease, a rare, progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that affects deer, elk, moose and other animals, the CDC says.

IT ALL STARTED WHEN John Howard was reading a local newspaper. He saw that chronic wasting disease had been detected in deer in Slanesville, W.Va. Upon checking further, he discovered ...