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Bookmark or Share- Transmission | Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) | Prion Disease | CDCScientists believe CWD proteins (prions) likely spread between animals through body fluids like feces, saliva, blood, or urine, either through direct contact or indirectly through environmental contamination of soil, food or water. Once introduced into an area or farm, the CWD protein is contagious within deer and elk populations and can spread ...
- Chronic Wasting Disease FAQ – CWD-INFO.ORGWhat Is Chronic Wasting Disease? Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is an always fatal, contagious, neurological disease affecting deer species (including reindeer), elk, and moose. It causes a characteristic spongy degeneration of the brains of infected animals resulting in emaciation, abnormal behavior, loss of bodily functions and death.
- CWD Overview – CWD-INFO.ORGChronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) of members of the deer family (cervids). Natural infections have been found in mule deer, white-tailed deer, elk, moose, and reindeer among native North American species as well as in red deer, Sika deer, and their crosses, primarily in South Korea.
- Expanding Distribution of Chronic Wasting Disease Active - USGS.govNational Wildlife Health Center. Science. Expanding Distribution of Chronic Wasting Disease Active. By National Wildlife Health Center April 19, 2024. Overview. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been detected in 33 US states and five Canadian provinces in free-ranging cervids and/or commercial captive cervid facilities.
- Chronic wasting disease - WikipediaChronic 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 ...
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