State game wardens killed three wild bighorn sheep that mingled with domestic sheep near Missoula to prevent them from spreading disease to other wild bighorns.
Montana Fish and Wildlife commissioners seeking to reduce the spread of disease to cattle will allow landowners to fence out and kill elk in the spring.
The Montana Fish and Wildlife and Parks Commission met in Helena on Thursday, December 12 and spent most of the morning discussing the devastation of the state's whitetail and mule deer population.
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A disease is killing dozens of white-tailed deer in Wyoming and Montana.
Wildlife officials say the disease causes internal bleeding and is either epizootic hemorrhagic disease or bluetongue. Tests are being done to determine which virus is the cause...
State health officials say a 20-year-old Bozeman woman recently died of hantavirus while a Carbon County man in his 40s has been diagnosed with the disease.
Norovirus outbreaks have skyrocketed in Montana. The virus, which causes violent bouts of vomiting, stomach pain and diarrhea will typically strike once or twice a month, but it's off to a fast start this year with twenty outbreaks in less than twenty weeks.
Even after an outbreak earlier this spring, pertussis (also known as whooping cough) may be on the rise again in Montana. Flathead county is currently struggling to contain an outbreak in five school districts.
A Custer county man who went to his health provider after fever-like symptoms has been diagnosed by the Department of Health and Human Services with West Nile Virus.
In the never-ending war against the spread of the HIV virus that can lead to AIDS, the Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it has approved the first-ever a self-administered HIV testing kit that produces results without the use of a laboratory.