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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]
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 ...
Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose. It is caused by a infectious, malformed prion, or protein, that affects the animal's brain.
(The Center Square) – The discovery of chronic wasting disease in a Georgia deer has state officials on alert, but they say the deer hunting industry will continue to thrive in the state. The ...
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 ...
The Pennsylvania Game Commission urges hunters in Disease Management Areas to have their deer tested for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) and to consider participating in a new extended antlerless ...
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, poses a serious threat to Texas’ deer population, especially in light of the recent outbreak in captive deer — with more than 15 new CWD-positive facilities ...
The commission reports that 13 new cases of chronic wasting disease have been detected in Cumberland, Surry, Stokes and Yadkin counties, bringing the total number of cases to 24 since the disease ...