Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

Falling vaccination rates could lead to the return of previously eliminated diseases, and many more people will be at risk of ...

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting disease in the Flathead Valley. Officials first received reports of a sickly ...

The discovery by UF/IFAS researchers marks the first documented instance of SSWD in the Atlantic Ocean and the first known ...

In the time before widespread vaccination, young children often became disabled or lost their lives to whooping cough, ...

Nugent also claimed that the DNR and the Michigan Natural Resources Commission have abdicated their “moral duty” by violating ...

Infectious disease researchers say they are also on the front lines of what could be a serious threat to public health — chronic wasting disease.

Ten deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease during the 2024-25 hunting season, mainly in Triad counties. What hunters and farmers need to know about the fatal "zombie deer" disease: ...

While chronic wasting disease is not known to infect humans, the Government of Alberta advises that "persons should not knowingly consume meat of animals with the disease." ...

In the later stages of the disease, deer become starved, weak and less fearful of humans. Often they die from predators, cars or guns before fully wasting away to the disease.

No, researchers say. Even the paper qualifies its results by saying human organoid tissue is not exactly the same as real human brain tissue, and that it’s possible another strain of CWD could be more ...