CWD

A commercially available test that can be used to analyze deer urine for the presence of CWD prions before its distribution to the public has been in use by Wildlife Research Center and Tink’s for a year, and most of the major scent companies are also adopting this technology in 2020.  Real Time Quaking Induced...

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...