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  2. Chronic wasting disease - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    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. The variant form of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in humans is caused by exposure to bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions. [4] [5] [6]

  4. Lethal ‘zombie deer disease’ could spill-over to humans ...

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    Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an infectious condition that affects deer, elk, reindeer, and moose. Animals become infected by contact with the feces, saliva, blood, or urine of infected animals ...

  5. Chronic wasting disease: Death of 2 hunters in US raises fear ...

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    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 ...

  6. Prion - Wikipedia

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    They are the hypothesized cause of various TSEs, including scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle (mad cow disease), and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. [8] All known prion diseases in mammals affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissues.

  7. Washington confirms first case of chronic wasting disease - AOL

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    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 ...

  8. Environmental impact of pharmaceuticals and personal care ...

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    The importance of ecopharmacovigilance is to monitor adverse effects of pharmaceuticals on humans through environmental exposure. [citation needed] Due to this relatively new field of science, researchers are continuously developing and understanding the impacts of pharmaceuticals in the environment and its risk on human and animal exposure ...

  9. CWD - Wikipedia

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    Chronic wasting disease, of deer; Coarse woody debris, fallen trees and branches; ... Common and well-documented, of human leukocyte antigen alleles; Train stations