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2 Hunters Die From Rare Brain Disease After Eating Deer Possibly Tainted With 'Chronic Wasting Disease': Study
A new study suggests chronic wasting disease, which is devastating deer populations, may have caused rare brain disease in ...
Is Chicken Feces Behind The Bird Flu Outbreaks In Cows? Here’s What To Know.
Experts are theorizing on the cause of recent bird flu outbreaks that have affected cow herds in almost 10 states, with some ...
Scientists Suggest First Link Between Always-Fatal Deer Disease CWD and Human Deaths
An article published in Volume 102 of 'Neurology' suggests a possible link to CWD as a contributing factor in the deaths of ...
CDC: Deer meat didn't cause hunters' deaths; concerns about chronic wasting disease remain
There have been no cases of chronic wasting disease in people to date, the CDC says. But it is still investigating the ...
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When Science Faces the Unknown
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (B.S.E.), nicknamed "Mad Cow Disease" was as unanticipated as AIDS, and is arguably as insidious. It arose from centuries of relative obscurity in sheep to sweep ...
2 hunters may have died of prion disease from eating contaminated deer meat, researchers say
A new report calls for further study into a possible link between chronic wasting disease in deer and a rare and deadly brain ...
Avian flu outbreak raises a disturbing question: Is our food system built on poop?
News that Midwestern dairy cows may have become infected with avian flu by eating poultry waste has many asking: What are ...
Study Suggests Possible Link Between CWD and Fatal Human Disease—But with Many Open Questions
Should you be alarmed? Probably not if you read the fine print. The study merely concludes that a link can't be ruled out and ...
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Conference Report - Spongiform Encephalopathies: A Tale of Cannibals, Cattle, and Prions
Approximately 70% of patients have a mutation at codon 78 or codon 200. Two other spongiform encephalopathies may be inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion: fatal familial insomnia and the ...
Did Texas researchers link hunter deaths to deer disease? Not quite. Here are the facts
Researchers in San Antonio loosely connected a deer-specific disease to the deaths of two hunters — which would be the first ...
Rare and fatal brain disease in two deer hunters heightens concerns about CWD
A team of researchers at University of Texas Health Science Center said the cases hint at a potential contamination from ...
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Conference Report - Spongiform Encephalopathies: A Tale of Cannibals, Cattle, and Prions
After many years of controversies (some of which are still raging), prions are now believed to be the infectious agents responsible for the transmission of TSEs. [3,4,5,6,7,8,9] They appear to be ...