A recent study in the journal Neurology found two hunters may have contracted the human form of Chronic Wasting Disease after eating CWD-infected deer meat

The link is not 100% but two hunters eating from the same deer population and falling ill at around the same time is extremely unlikely to be a coincidence.

We are essentially one mutation away from this spreading between humans and that would be very, very bad.

  • StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml
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    8 months ago

    It's a prion, aka a protein which has gone wrong

    The worst part about CWD is that it can sit in soil for a decade so once an area gets CWD, it will pretty much keep CWD