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Signs point to the first major outbreak of canine distemper since the state took over management. As a result, this year will likely see fewer hunting tags than most: the state has proposed cutting the wolf mortality limit to 22. That’s down half from last year.

Brucellosis is a bacterial disease that can cause cattle, bison and elk to abort fetuses. Ranchers in northwest Wyoming have the most issues because of the proximity to wildlife that carry the disease.

The cottontails are infected with Shope papilloma virus, which doesn't significantly impact the critters unless the warty growths interfere with eating or drinking.

As Wyoming crests the one year anniversary of its first anthrax outbreak in decades, the state livestock board says disease response time will lag because of federal cuts.

The bill is in response to an outbreak last summer in Elk Mountain that impacted a handful of cattle herds. Some argue codifying the state’s recently adopted response protocol would add teeth, while others say it’s unnecessary.

The state’s response to an anthrax outbreak in 2024 is being dictated by a new protocol. Some ranchers called for a legislative response, which was uncertain initially.

The Wyoming Livestock Board says these are the first confirmed cases of anthrax in Wyoming cattle since the 1970s. Game and Fish says the last confirmed case in wildlife occurred in 1956 in Sublette County.

A new federal report shows climate change is driving disease carriers like ticks and mosquitoes into new areas of the nation, including the Mountain West.

The Sublette Pronghorn herd death toll from this winter was shared at a recent natural gas meeting in Pinedale.

The University of Wyoming State Vet Lab has a biocontainment facility, and within that there’s a necropsy facility. It was used recently for the first time to diagnose animal infections that have the potential to transfer to humans.