A long road is ahead for the Rock County deer farm where chronic wasting disease was detected.  Wisconsin State Veterinarian ...

This detection is the first in Carbon County and is more ... An always-fatal neurological disease caused by a misfolded protein called a prion, CWD is a threat to deer and elk. It’s classified as a ...

“The detection of this isolated case of atypical BSE shows that the UK’s surveillance programme is working well. There is no risk to the public, as the animal’s carcass will have been destroyed and no ...

MADISON - Chronic wasting disease continues to spread and increase ... It is caused by an abnormal prion, or protein. It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform ...

CWD prions, a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally, don't infect human brain tissue, according to Science News. The most common prion disease in people ...

For Colorado’s elk herds, while there are more herds with no detection ... wasting disease? Chronic wasting disease is caused by an infectious prion (or abnormal protein) and spreads primarily ...

For Colorado’s elk herds, while there are more herds with no detection, there is an overlap ... that had previously been implemented. Chronic wasting disease is caused by an infectious prion (or ...