Chronic Wasting Disease

Welcome to the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance's web site.

This site is a joint project of the Boone and Crockett Club, Mule Deer Foundation, and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. These non-profit wildlife conservation organizations formed the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance in January 2002 to address CWD. Other organizations have since joined the Alliance.

Elk with Chronic Wasting Disease

Photo Courtesy of University of Wyoming

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The mission of the CWD Alliance is to promote responsible and accurate communications regarding CWD, and to support strategies that effectively control CWD to minimize its impact on wild, free-ranging cervids including deer, elk, and moose.

The CWD Alliance and its partner organizations are committed to providing timely, scientifically accurate information regarding chronic wasting disease, its impacts on wildlife and humans, and recommendations for its control.

What's New:

West Virginia : Eleven Deer Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease During Spring Collections in Hampshire County, West Virginia
Test results have detected the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent in a total of 11 white-tailed deer collected during the 2008 spring collections in Hampshire County, West Virginia, according to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (DNR). All of the deer testing positive for CWD were collected by Wildlife Resources Section personnel working in the Slanesville/Augusta area of the county. No new positive samples were detected in the Yellow Springs area of Hampshire County. Read More...

International : New funding for BSE research at U of A
The study is one of four projects to share in $1.9 million awarded to U of A researchers by PrioNet. The network pulls together scientists from across the country, as well as members of government, non-government organizations and industry, to work on the ultimate goal of eradicating the impact of prion disease. Read more...

International : U of S Researchers Given $1.2M for Prion Disease Studies
Researchers at the University of Saskatchewan have been given a $1.2 million boost in their efforts to find solutions to threats posed by prion diseases.
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International : U of C Researchers Get Funding For CWD Study
Researchers from the University of Calgary and from Germany will be looking at whether Chronic Wasting Disease in deer can spread to human populations.
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Colorado : 13 Elk Caught in Park Test Positive for Disease
The first results of a new, live-animal test for chronic wasting disease found that 13 of 117 captured elk in Rocky Mountain National Park were positive.
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West Virginia : Four Additional Deer Test Positive for Chronic Wasting Disease In Hampshire County, West Virginia
Test results have detected the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) agent in four additional deer collected during the first week of the 2008 spring collections in Hampshire County, according to the West Virginia Division of Natural Resoures. Read more...