chronic wasting disease

Nothing scares hunters more than Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). The disease shows up unannounced and can decimate massive deer and elk herds as well as the moose population in very short order. Recently the use of hunting scents have come into question as possibly being a source of spreading CWD — this claim is false...

Each year, the Game Commission collects Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) samples from hunter-harvested animals, road-kills, escaped captive cervids, and any cervid showing signs of CWD. In 2016, The Pennsylvania Game Commission tested 5,707 deer and 110 elk for Chronic Wasting Disease. Twenty-five wild deer tested positive for CWD, all within Disease Management Area 2 (DMA...