chronic wasting disease

Chronic wasting disease is a chronic, fatal disease of the central nervous system.

Chronic wasting disease is invariably fatal in the elk, deer, moose and caribou.

Currently the deer in the hunt area 131 have not tested positive for chronic wasting disease.

“Seeing a deer test positive for CWD west of the continental divide again is concerning,” said Deputy Chief of the Wildlife Division Scott Edberg.

Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease affecting elk, deer, and moose, but is not thought to affect humans.

Testing by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department has found chronic wasting disease (CWD), a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose, in a deer from Fremont County in deer hunt area 160. Staff at the Game and Fish’s wildlife disease laboratory in Laramie confirmed a yearling mule deer buck as CWD positive...

The Wyoming Department of Health is urging Wyoming residents to take the opportunity of World AIDS Day December 1 to get tested for sexually transmitted diseases. Chronic Wasting Disease has been identified in Wyoming elk hunt area ten. Click past jump to listen to Wyoming Radio News. //townsquare.media/site/99/files/2012/11/wyoming-radio-news-am-16.mp3">

A spokesman for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department says Chronic Wasting Disease, a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose has turned up for the first time in an elk in elk in elk hunt area 10. Al Langston says that area includes part of the Snowy Range in the Medicine Bow National Forest as well as some adjoining private lands...

Randy Weigel, a professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Wyoming and Director of Wyoming Agrability has received the Career Achievement Award from the National Family Life Specialists Awards Committee. Amy Richards reports.. Chronic Wasting Disease, which affects deer, elk and moose, has turned up in a deer in a hunt area near Green River. Click past jump to