Remember, there is still no known case of CWD infecting a human. But this is not to say that CWD will never infect humans. A new strain of CWD prion could emerge that could be more dangerous to people ...

In Breckinridge County, a deer from a farm tested positive for chronic wasting disease, but what exactly is it?The Kentucky ...

Lack of transmission of chronic wasting disease prions to human cerebral organoids. Emerging Infectious Diseases . Vol. 30, June 2024, p. 1193. doi: 10.3201/eid3006.231568.

But, it’s important to remember that there is no documented evidence of a human ever becoming infected with chronic wasting disease. A Prion Map Could Lead to a Vaccine The ability to see, and thus ...

Other prion diseases, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, have affected humans. Mad cow claimed the lives of more than 200 ...

Chronic wasting disease is a prion disease — a rare, neurodegenerative disorder caused by misfolded proteins, called prions, that damage brain tissue. It affects members of the deer family (Cervidae), ...

If a hunter shoots an elk, deer or moose infected with chronic wasting disease, can people become sick from eating the meat or handling a knife used to dress the ...

The most recent case — a red deer from a deer farm in Wayne County — was confirmed by a USDA lab this spring after it was ...

State wildlife officials are upping local harvest quotas for whitetail deer to combat a recent outbreak of chronic wasting ...

More: CDC: Deer meat didn't cause hunters' deaths; concerns about chronic wasting disease remain Is CWD possible in humans? What is the human equivalent of CWD? Though there have been no cases of ...