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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]
Often referred to as CWD, chronic wasting disease is a prion disease, which means the proteins in the body are misfolding. This will cause symptoms that will eventually lead to death, the Centers ...
Yet this disease is not a new occurrence; the first identified case of chronic wasting disease was in captive deer in a Colorado research facility in the late 1960s, then in wild deer in 1981.
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 ...
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 is a progressive, fatal disease that affects the brain, spinal cord and many other tissues of farmed and free-ranging deer, elk, and moose.
Chronic wasting disease continues to spread in white-tailed deer in Wisconsin and other states, highlighted by two findings this month. On April 11 the Department of Natural Resources confirmed ...