Here's where "zombie deer disease" has been reported so far: Reports of chronic wasting disease in the U.S. and abroad. Chronic wasting disease has been found in animal populations in at least 31 ...

"Zombie deer," deer afflicted with a prion wasting disease, are found in more and more areas. It causes deer to drastically lose weight and act erratically.

But Larsen called “zombie deer disease” an unfortunate and potentially misleading moniker. “I have only seen one deer that has died of [chronic wasting disease] and it was emaciated,” he said.

More: 'Zombie' deer disease is in 24 states and thousands of infected deer are eaten each year, expert warns. None have infected humans. There have never been any reported cases of CWD in humans.

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has now been reported in deer in at least 22 U.S. states and 2 Canadian provinces. A study has raised concerns that CWD could eventually jump to humans.

A quick Google search of the term “zombie deer” gets back 74 million responses, although there is no way to know how many of those are fictitious accounts of zombie deer attacks.

Zombie deer aren’t coming for us after all, though it remains a remote possibility that CWD might one day spill over into human populations, Schuler said. Until then, no harm done, right?

Deer infected with EHD have been referred to with the misnomer “zombie deer.” Tonkovich cautions against using the term to describe any deer disease or unusual deer behavior.

Despite ongoing efforts to curtail its spread in the U.S. and abroad, the lethal chronic wasting disease (CWD) remains a threat — with no vaccine or cure. In 2005, the “zombie deer” disease ...

Scientists have warned that "zombie deer" are spreading across America and there is nothing that can be done to stop them. Officials monitoring chronic wasting disease, a deadly and severely ...

There's a scary claim going around: that "zombie deer" are spreading across the U.S. and could soon infect humans. It's based on facts, but could be exaggerated.

Ever heard of ‘zombie deer’? Here’s what’s infecting them (and why you shouldn’t use the z-word) ... Example of deer afflicted with Chronic Wasting Disease in Wisconsin.