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Brainworm affects neurological and behavioral responses. Deer rarely show any external symptoms of P. tenius infection due to their high acquired resistance. Moose, however, have low resistance, and may show a number of symptoms. Though infrequent, cases of moose recovering from brainworm infection have been reported.
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]
Moose sickness (also called moose disease, moose circling disease) is a neurological condition seen in the northern mixed-wood forests of central and eastern North America where moose distribution overlaps with that of white-tailed deer. The disease is characterized by an unsteady gait, stumbling, head held to one side, circling, staying in one ...
Two friends who hunted deer together at the same lodge contracted an extremely rare brain disease and died, raising fears that they may have been infected by contaminated venison. A team of ...
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The disease was found in a deer sampled for routine surveillance in Lanier County, according to the Department of Natural Resources. A hunter harvested the 2½-year-old deer in late November, the ...
Parelaphostrongylus tenuis (brainworm or meningeal worm) is a parasitic nematode known to affect the spinal cord and brain tissue of elk and other species, leading to death. [64] The definitive host is the white-tailed deer, in which it normally has no ill effects.
These conditions form a spectrum of diseases with overlapping signs and symptoms. TSEs in non-human mammals include scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle – popularly known as "mad cow disease" – and chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer and elk.