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CWD earned the nickname “zombie deer disease” for associated symptoms including weight loss, lack of coordination, stumbling, listlessness, weight loss, drooling and lack of fear of people.
Also known as chronic wasting disease, "zombie deer disease" is a prion disease, a rare, progressive and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that affects deer, elk, moose and other animals, the CDC says.
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]
Sometimes, deer will die without ever developing the zombie-like symptoms. Norway, Finland and Sweden and a small number of imported cases in South Korea have been recorded in reindeer and moose.
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White deer or White Deer may refer to: Animals. Seneca white deer; White stag, a red deer with leucism; An albino deer of any species; Places.
Scientists have warned a “zombie deer disease” could spread to humans after hundreds of animals were infected with the illness in the US over the last year.. Chronic wasting disease (CWD ...
Zombies Ate My Neighbors also is a run and gun video game developed by LucasArts and published by Konami for the Super NES and Sega Genesis consoles in 1993. One or two players take control of the protagonists, Zeke and Julie, in order to rescue the titular neighbors from monsters often seen in horror movies .