A farmed white-tail deer from Osceola County was found with CWD.. The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural ...

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is reporting a deer in Washtenaw County has tested positive for Chronic Wasting ...

The Michigan State University Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, which works with the DNR to identify CWD in Michigan’s wild deer herd, confirmed the CWD finding. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ...

Chronic wasting disease is caused by an infectious prion (or abnormal protein) and spreads primarily by direct contact with ...

More: Franklin County hunting affected by outbreak of another disease The growth of the zone indicates the difficulty of dealing with CWD, a malady caused by a misshaped protein that kills deer by ...

Fifteen years ago, chronic wasting disease was rare in the province's ... Prions are a type of protein found naturally on the surface of cells and are particularly abundant in the brain.

CWD, a fatal neurologic disease of cervids such as deer ... The Wyoming patient’s virus had the E627K mutation in the ...