Individuals claiming to be from Texas A&M are going door-to-door asking residents to shoot deer in their yard, according to a social media post from KPD.

A case of Chronic Wasting Disease was found in a deer at a Medina County breeding facility.

TPWD officials on Friday said a post-mortem tests conducted by the National Veterinary Service Laboratories showed no chronic wasting disease in a 14-month-old buck that was suspected of having the disease.

Chronic wasting disease was discovered in a buck at Texas Parks and Wildlife research facility.

A fatal neurological disease among deer has been detected in the Hill Country ahead of the fall hunting season.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is launching a new campaign to help educate the public about a fatal neurological disease among deer known as Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD.

A fatal neurological disease known as “zombie deer disease” has been detected in more animals in Frio and Zavala counties, southwest of San Antonio.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department officials were notified that a free-range white-tailed deer in Bexar County tested positive after it was captured in late January in Hollywood Park.

The City of Leon Valley is making moves to pass a city ordinance that would prohibit feeding deer in city parks and on city-owned property.

The highly infectious Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), also known as zombie deer disease, has been discovered in the Texas Hill Country.

AUSTIN – A five-and-a-half-year-old, white-tailed deer has tested positive for ‘zombie deer’ disease, or Chronic Wasting Disease, according to Texas Parks and Wildlife officials. Officials say the deer is being held at a deer breeding facility in Kimble County, just Northwest of San Antonio, and is the first positive case of the disease that has been detected since 2011. The disease is described by Texas wildlife officials as a “progressive, fatal neurological disease” that affects the animal’s brain; however, the deer can have the disease for years without it being detected, per TPW staff. Symptoms of the ‘zombie deer’ disease include listlessness, lowering of the head, weight loss, repetitive walking in set patterns and a lack of responsiveness, according to officials. 488-pound feral hog killed in Texas by wildlife removal expertsDeer are still being held at the Kimble County breeding facility and more investigations into the disease will be conducted, according to wildlife officials.