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Zombie deer disease 'may have jumped to humans' as US Government issue warning (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

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