Chronic Wasting Disease, or CWD, is a neurological disease in deer, elk, moose and other members of the deer family, known as “cervids,” a report by the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife says. The disease was first recognized in 1967 in captive mule deer in Colorado and has since been documented in captive and free-ranging deer in states and two Canadian provinces. The first case of the disease in Texas was discovered in 2012 in free-ranging mule deer in an isolated area of far West Texas. The first case of CWD in Texas white-tailed deer was found in a Medina County deer-breeding ...