The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection has confirmed that a Rock County deer farm has tested ...

Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection confirmed on Thursday that a deer at a ...

Preclinical Development of an AAV-delivered Zinc Finger Transcriptional Repressor Targeting the Prion Gene as a Novel Epigenetic Gene Therapy for Prion Disease Abstract No. 389 Oral Presentation ...

CWD could already be transmitting to humans, according to experts who met to discuss the quickly spreading disease during an April 10 Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy seminar on ...

POWELL — Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and even humans from direct contact with or environmental ...

Traveling with harvested cervids inside the state borders or importing from elsewhere, you'll face restrictions designed to choke the movement of potentially CWD-prion-infected animal parts.

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 ...

CWD is not created by a typical virus or bacterium. It’s caused by a prion—a misfolded protein that causes other proteins to fold abnormally, killing cells in what can become an expanding ...

Randall Gornowich / Maryland Department of Natural Resources In the lineup of wildlife diseases across the country, few are more studied and yet still more mysterious than chronic wasting disease. The ...

Often referred to as CWD, chronic wasting disease is a prion disease, which means the proteins in the body are misfolding. This will cause symptoms that will eventually lead to death, the Centers ...