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Zombie deer disease 'may have jumped to humans' as US Government issue warning
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Depending on how many prions you are exposed to, the incubation period of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is 15 months to over 30 years. I imagine CWD is similar. There could be many infected people who are still oblivious. Or there could be none. It will be academically interesting to watch this play out.
CWD is just how TSE, or prion disease, is named when it affects deer. It's the same thing as Creutzfeldt–Jakob. The incubation period is not really known though, or at least the average / median incubation period varies wildly depending on the source