Could the Disease That Produces “Zombie Deer” Become a Threat to Humans?

Although I had not really heard of this disease before, it has actually been around for many years.

Yet, the dangers are real.

Here, according to an article by Sara Chodosh of Popular Science, is a brief description:

If you’ve heard of “zombie deer,” you’ve heard of the horrors of chronic wasting disease. CWD causes infected animals to stumble through the forest, sometimes drooling and becoming aggressive towards humans they once feared. They lose weight. They’re listless. The spookiest thing about it, though, isn’t its resemblance to zombie-dom—it’s the fact that it’s an incurable prion disease.

Clearly, it is an awful, and incurable, disease. And it might be something that could be a threat to humans, as if we did not have enough things to worry about these days!

Here is the link to the article:

                   


Scientists worry 'zombie deer' disease could jump to humans Chronic wasting disease is currently in 24 states.  By Sara Chodosh  Yesterday at 2:30pm

https://www.popsci.com/chronic-wasting-disease-humans-hunting?src=SOC&dom=fb&fbclid=IwAR22lF14An_uFM-AjQ-NU1gmRy4z2UuTzuV78DdFv0EMVFRdGuVfIJIiSuY