CDC Warns Deer Disease Could Spread to Humans

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a new warning about the spread of a brain-wasting deer disease known as CWD after findings in a recent study suggest it could potentially infect humans.
While Chronic Wasting Disease has been on the landscape for decades, it is spreading.
Officials just discovered the disease in Tennessee in the past few months, and 183 deer have already tested positive for the prion disease.
A recent scientific study carries the most substantial evidence CWD could also spread to humans.
Officials say that study, as well as many others, is ongoing, and the CDC is calling research of CWD a top priority.
While there have been no reported cases of CWD infection in people, officials from the CDC, Tennessee Wildlife & Resource Agency and Vanderbilt doctors have all expressed concern that CWD could — and may be — transmitting to humans.
That’s why they all advise everyone to take precaution before eating meat from animals that could be infected.

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