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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 progressive, fatal prion disease that affects the brain, spinal cord and many other tissues of farmed and free-ranging deer, elk, and moose. CWD earned the nickname ...
As of November 2023, there had been cases of chronic wasting disease in free-ranging deer, elk and moose in at least 31 states in the US, as well as three provinces in Canada, according to the CDC.
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 ...
Chronic wasting disease, sometimes known as “zombie deer disease,” is a contagious infection similar to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease, that attacks the ...
A white-tailed deer showing symptoms of chronic wasting disease (M. W. Miller, Colorado Division of Wildlife, via the Associated Press)
The not-deer was likely inspired by accounts of deer with neurological diseases such as chronic wasting disease, also known as zombie deer disease. [2] The not-deer is an example of a cryptid not characterized as an entirely unknown creature (such as Bigfoot), but rather a creature defined in contrast to normal deer. Prior to 2019, not-deer ...