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Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer.TSEs are a family of diseases thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep. [2]
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease found in North America in deer and elk. The first case was identified as a fatal wasting syndrome in the 1960s. It was then recognized as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy in 1978.
Found in deer in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming in the 1990s, chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been recorded in free-ranging deer, elk and moose in at least 32 states across all parts of ...
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Williams discovered chronic wasting disease (CWD) in 1978, [6] identifying it as a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, and was later recognized as the foremost expert on CWD in deer and elk in the US. [1] She and her husband are credited with preventing the extinction of black-footed ferrets.
Aug. 1—Washington has its first case of chronic wasting disease. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife announced Thursday that it confirmed the state's first case of the always-fatal ...
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What type of pathogen causes chronic wasting disease? Chronic wasting disease is caused by infectious proteins called prions. All diseases caused by infectious proteins are called prion diseases.