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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a degenerative neurological illness that is always fatal to infected animals of the deer family, which includes white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, red deer. The disease may also possibly affect moose. It is transmitted from animal to animal, and from one deer species to another. The disease affects the brain and central nervous system of some of these animals. Symptoms include weight loss, stumbling, atypical behavior, excessive thirst, and slobbering.
The finding of CWD in New York
CWD was first found in New York in April, 2005 in two captive deer near Rome in Oneida County.
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