This marks the third documented case of the disease in Wyoming’s Elk Hunt Area 98 and the first confirmed case on an elk feedground in the state, according to a Jan. 15 announcement from the Wyoming ...

One area of focus for scientists is contagion in and around feedgrounds where elk gather in large herds and are susceptible to the spread of misfolded prions that cause the disease. Toward the end of ...

This is the third documented case of CWD in the hunt area in what could be an ominous sign for elk populations not only in Wyoming, but also in neighboring Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.

“This is the third documented case of CWD in the hunt area and the first confirmed case of an elk testing positive on a feedground,” Wyoming Game and Fish Department officials stated in a notice ...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department recently found the presence of chronic wasting disease, or CWD, in an adult female elk from Elk Hunt Area 98. The elk was found dead on the Scab Creek feedground ...

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For the first time, an elk has tested positive for chronic wasting disease on a western Wyoming wapiti feedground, areas that wildlife biologists have long seen as a risk for disease transmission.

An elk found dead on the Scab Creek Feedground in Elk Hunt Area 98 in Wyoming at the end of December has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD), the Wyoming Game and Fish Department ...

But there are also the prospects of very high levels of the disease, he said, citing a Wyoming study that found 37 out of 39 captive elk died from CWD at the Tom Thorne/Beth Williams Wildlife Habitat ...

A dead elk found east of Pinedale tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease earlier this month, marking the first such death inside a Wyoming feedground. After a multiyear study of feedgrounds, one ...