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.

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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:

Michigan : Michigan's First Case of Chronic Wasting Disease Detected at Kent County Deer Breeding Facility
LANSING - The Michigan departments of Agriculture (MDA) and Natural Resources (DNR) today confirmed the state's first case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a three-year old white-tailed deer from a privately owned cervid (POC) facility in Kent County. Read more...

Delaware : For the Fifth Straight Year, Chronic Wasting Disease Not Found
Nearly 600 brain and lymph node tissue samples from white-tailed deer in all three counties of Delaware showed no evidence of chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife announced today. This brings the total number of Delaware deer tested since 2003 to more than 2,400. Read more...

Wyoming : Wildlife Disease Debate: To Act or to React?
Now that Wyoming Game and Fish scientists say chronic wasting disease is headed to Jackson Hole, hunters, outfitters and wildlife watchers are unsure how the always-fatal, seemingly unstoppable neurological disease will affect the local elk population and the industries those elk support. Read more...

Florida : Help Monitor for Chronic Wasting Disease
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) is looking to hunters this coming season to help it monitor the state’s deer herd for chronic wasting disease.
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Missouri : Test Results Show Missouri Still CWD-Free
Renewed testing for chronic wasting disease (CWD) in 2007 turned up no evidence of the disease, but the Missouri Department of Conservation says it will continue stepped-up monitoring for two more years. Read more...

Maryland : Maryland Deer Test Negative For Chronic Wasting Disease
Samples collected from more than 900 deer during the 2007-2008 Maryland deer hunting season showed no signs of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). Recent laboratory test results confirmed no evidence of the disease in brain and lymph nodes collected from 983 deer. Additional samples from sick or injured deer also showed no signs of the disease. During the past six years, over 4600 Maryland deer have been tested and were CWD-free. Read more...