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 ...

Onslaught of infections suggests that feeding operations are exacerbating the spread of a deadly prion disease that’s making ...

Washtenaw County is now the 15th county in the state where the Department of Natural Resources has identified chronic wasting ...

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Mule deer herds are declining across the West for many reasons. But three states — Utah, Wyoming and Nevada — want to both pin the blame on mountain lions and “resolve” the issue by using cruel traps ...

This means lions or other trapped animals could suffer for days in leghold traps or foot snares until the trapper arrives to kill them. Here’s the basic issue: States blame lions for the decline in ...

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Mayo Clinic launched a new prion test, RT-QuIC Prion, CSF, which can distinguish prion disease from other causes of rapidly ...

A new study published in Cell Reports reveals a breakthrough discovery linking genetic variants in the gene ITSN1 to a ...

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The new gene therapy aims to address the root cause of prion disease by using the CHARM epigenetic editing platform from the Whitehead Institute to target and silence the gene that codes for the ...

Chronic wasting disease is an always-fatal brain disease in white-tailed deer and similar animals that can spread quickly.