A two-and-a-half-year-old male white-tailed deer, harvested on private property in Lanier County, tested positive for the fatal disease at the USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories.

The first case of Chronic Wasting Disease in Georgia has been confirmed. Find out what it is and if it can affect humans.

DNR is encouraging other hunters across South Georgia especially in Berrien and Lanier counties to take their meat to get sampled.

The population of white-tailed deer in the Southern Peninsula of Michigan has been fluctuating for years. After nearly going extinct in the late 1800s due to excessive hunting, the white-tailed deer ...

Piebald deer stand out due to their white coat, the result of an inherited genetic trait that can also cause physical deformities.

A bill that will split whitetail and mule deer seasons passed out of a legislative committee Tuesday. But some Wyoming ...

A DNR study in southwestern Wisconsin has concluded deer populations are likely declining in areas of the state where CWD ...

News of a chronic wasting disease case in Mecosta County came just days after Minnesota researchers said CWD could eventually pose a risk to other wildlife, livestock and potentially humans.

A National Key Deer Refuge ranger explains how to make the most of a visit to this ecologically diverse Florida island.

A deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease in Mecosta County, according to the Michigan Department of Natural ...

CWD was first discovered in 1967 in Fort Collins, Colorado. CWD is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk, and moose caused by infectious, misfolded proteins called prions. There are no current ...