The AVMA encourages the USDA to continue to partner with state animal health officials, federal and state animal public health officials, the cattle…

As a fatal, infectious neurologic disease has spread in deer and elk, researchers want to make sure it can't affect humans.

Formal Title - Docket Number (APHIS-2012-0087); Interim Rule, Approved Tests for Bovine Tuberculosis in Cervids  Brief Description: With the…

Four lecturers will talk Saturday about chronic wasting disease, the biology of the disease, its history in Minnesota, how it is detected, and how…

Research teams are working to improve tests used to find the prions that cause chronic wasting disease, track animal movements and interactions…

U.S. Veterinary positions, December 31, 2020.

APHIS gave priority to states and tribes in states that have detected CWD and have a CWD monitoring and control program or that propose to create a…

The Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service awarded over $14 million to more than 70 projects aimed at protecting U.S.…

About four in 10 wild cervids are infected with CWD in areas of Colorado, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. The always-fatal prion disease also can simmer…

Researchers found genetic variations in deer may be associated with chronic wasting disease susceptibility.

Several vaccine candidates could prolong lives of animals infected with chronic wasting disease and reduce spread of the disease.

U.S. Veterinary positions, December 31, 2017

USAHA asks federal authorities to invest more to guard against livestock diseases and let veterinarians transport and use controlled

U.S. Veterinary Positions - December 31,2016

Formal Title: Docket Number (00-108-8); Chronic Wasting Disease Herd Certification Program and Interstate Movement of Farmed or Captive Deer, Elk,…

U.S. Veterinary positions, December 31, 2015.

The prion proteins that cause chronic wasting disease survive for years in soil and are taken up by plants.

U.S. Veterinary positions, December 31, 2014.

U.S. Veterinary positions, December 31, 2013.

Velvet refers to the entire cartilaginous antler (prior to calcification) of a range of cervids including deer1 and elk.

U.S. Veterinary positions, December 31, 2018.

U.S. Veterinary positions, December 31, 2012.

U.S. Veterinary positions, December 31, 2011.

Policy on Removal of Antlers (Velveting)

Animals used in pre-college education should not be subjected to uses that cause any pain, an updated AVMA policy states.