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All About Chronic Wasting Disease!!
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Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathy that affects deer. TSEs are types of diseases that are thought to be caused by prions misfolding. Similar diseases include "Mad Cow Disease" and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. CWD mostly affects the deer family, experiments have resulted in transmitting CWD to squirrel monkeys and genetically modified mice. Symptoms of CWD CW... » Continue Reading