There is a risk of chronic wasting disease, also known as CWD, jumping from animals like deer over to humans, according to a ...

As the disease progresses, deer exhibit behaviors that make them appear zombie-like. Scholars and doctoral students, led by Marcelo Jorge, at the Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources ...

Consider CWD to be the wildlife equivalent of Mad Cow Disease. It invades the brains of deer, elk, and moose, gradually ...

The disease — which is 100% fatal — causes a deer's nervous system to shut down until they die, but there's no evidence of the disease spreading to humans.

in a vehicle or transporting potentially infected carcasses and putting them into new areas where deer could potentially access them.” While the zombie-like disease is known to jump species ...