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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 ...
A map shows the status of white-tailed deer baiting and feeding bans in Wisconsin counties. ... Chronic wasting disease is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk and moose. It is caused by a ...
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is an infectious condition that affects deer, elk, reindeer, and moose. Animals become infected by contact with the feces, saliva, blood, or urine of infected animals ...
Chronic wasting disease, of deer; Coarse woody debris, fallen trees and branches; Coffee wilt disease, in coffee trees; Common and well-documented, of human leukocyte ...
Williams discovered chronic wasting disease (CWD) in 1978, [6] identifying it as a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, and was later recognized as the foremost expert on CWD in deer and elk in the US. [1] She and her husband are credited with preventing the extinction of black-footed ferrets.
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 ...
In medicine, wasting, also known as wasting syndrome, refers to the process by which a debilitating disease causes muscle and fat tissue to "waste" away. Wasting is sometimes referred to as "acute malnutrition" because it is believed that episodes of wasting have a short duration, in contrast to stunting, which is regarded as chronic ...