To investigate the archaic ancestry of the living human population, Akey and Vernot set to work searching for Neanderthal DNA in modern genomes. They developed a statistical approach to identify ...

The rest of the 23 CWD-positive deer harvested by hunters during the 2024-25 hunting season were found in Allen, Hardin, ...

Two dozen white-tailed deer taken during the 2024-25 hunting season tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), ...

Prion disease experts are concerned about spillover of chronic wasting disease into other species of wildlife, livestock and ...

With activists swaying legislature to kneecap Game and Fish Department in fight against CWD, the right-wing COVID playbook ...

Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, has been detected in Putnam, Marshall, Adams, and Peoria counties, expanding the geographic presence of the disease in free-ranging deer populations in northern ...

Health officials in Hood River County, Ore., are investigating three cases of Creutzfeld Jakob disease. Two have died and a ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources announced the presence of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in free ranging-deer populations has spread to more Illinois counties.

What’s widely known as “zombie deer disease” is gradually increasing in the Beehive State. The official name is Chronic ...

Hunters are encouraged to test their deer after the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) announced chronic wasting disease has been detected in several stateline counties. Chronic wasting ...

Four new counties in Illinois have reported cases of Chronic Wasting Disease, raising questions about the fate of our beloved ...

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources reports additional Chronic Wasting Disease cases in deer across four new ...