Hunters in certain areas across Texas are facing a new challenge this year: the reporting and decapitation of deer harvested ...

Dan Ashe wrote that cougars regulate Chronic Wasting Disease in an effort to build support for a ban on mountain lion hunting ...

They are called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) when there is evidence of animal-to-human or human-to-human transmission. The definition stems from the characteristic aspect and ...

Ohtahara syndrome (now called Early Infantile Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy) is a rare type of epilepsy that begins during infancy. It is also called early infantile epileptic ...

CWD is a contagious, fatal neurological disease that affects the nervous system of deer, elk, moose and caribou. It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies ...

What are the molecular and cellular mechanisms by which some babies develop epileptic encephalopathies and autism spectrum disorder? That's what researchers in Canada and France set out to uncover ...

Satisfying one of the most important principles of Koch (a set of criteria used to prove the infectious nature of a disease), kuru was then shown to be transmissible from human brain tissue to a ...

BONNERS FERRY, Idaho — After three white-tailed deer tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) near Bonners Ferry, a new CWD Management Zone has been created in the Panhandle Region.

The release further noted, “The 2024 PHEIC is related to MPox virus clade I which is more virulent and more transmissible than Mpox clade II.” ...

It belongs to the family of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies or prion diseases. Prions are misshaped proteins that can spread the disease through direct animal-to-animal ...

A variant is like a new “take” on the original virus. A strain is when a virus has so many variants that it starts acting differently—for example, it’s much more transmissible than the previous ...