Chronic wasting disease
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chronic-wasting-disease-205-5007106
title:
Chronic wasting disease
text:
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 in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and scrapie in sheep. Natural infection causing CWD affects members of the deer family. In the United States, CWD affects mule deer, white-tailed deer, red deer, sika deer, elk, bison
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Prion disease affecting the deer family
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease
date created:
2003-06-19T06:15:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T07:09:18Z
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