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  1. Vampire Bats Are Moving into the US and Scientists Worry They Could Spread a Fatal Zombie Deer Disease to Humans

    A deer showing signs of CWD. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In 2022, Peter Larsen awoke in the Guyanese rainforest…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #ChronicWastingDisease #cwd #Deer #Desmodusrotundus #Ecology #Epidemiology #prions #Science #vampirebats #wildlifedisease
    newsbeep.com/us/596244/

  2. Vampire Bats Are Moving into the US and Scientists Worry They Could Spread a Fatal Zombie Deer Disease to Humans

    A deer showing signs of CWD. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In 2022, Peter Larsen awoke in the Guyanese rainforest…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #ChronicWastingDisease #cwd #Deer #Desmodusrotundus #Ecology #Epidemiology #prions #Science #vampirebats #wildlifedisease
    newsbeep.com/us/596244/

  3. Just mentioned BSE and this turns up.
    U. Minnesota article states:
    "Researchers have identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in raw, cooked, and cured meat from an infected elk in Texas"
    mastodon.social/@Infoseepage/1
    #prions #CWD #CJD #BSE

    Removal of wolves led to deer population explosion in #Japan increasing damage to forests & crops. If prions are found in Japan's deer, hunting deer for deer meat will be out. So, bring back wolves?

  4. Just mentioned BSE and this turns up.
    U. Minnesota article states:
    "Researchers have identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in raw, cooked, and cured meat from an infected elk in Texas"
    mastodon.social/@Infoseepage/1
    #prions #CWD #CJD #BSE

    Removal of wolves led to deer population explosion in #Japan increasing damage to forests & crops. If prions are found in Japan's deer, hunting deer for deer meat will be out. So, bring back wolves?

  5. Just mentioned BSE and this turns up.
    U. Minnesota article states:
    "Researchers have identified chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in raw, cooked, and cured meat from an infected elk in Texas"
    mastodon.social/@Infoseepage/1
    #prions #CWD #CJD #BSE

    Removal of wolves led to deer population explosion in #Japan increasing damage to forests & crops. If prions are found in Japan's deer, hunting deer for deer meat will be out. So, bring back wolves?

  6. "This nightmare illness doesn’t yet exist. But for inspiration, Napper needs to look only at the very real contagion in his own lab: chronic wasting disease (CWD), a highly lethal, highly contagious #NeurodegenerativeDisease that is devastating North America’s deer, elk, and other cervids."
    #Prions

    theatlantic.com/science/archiv

  7. Second lab worker with deadly prion disease prompts research pause in France - Enlarge / A pathologist examines brain tissue of a diseased deer. The white circ... - arstechnica.com/?p=1784034 #science #france #madcow #prions #cjd #tse