Something special is on the horizon for #CWD 🦌 outreach and education! Our MNPRO team has developed a choose your own adventure game that will help folks understand the disease and regional regulations. DM me with your email address if you want to be a beta tester this May!
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Mule deer buck
CWD spreads to Montana hunting district near Great Falls
After two initial positive tests, the confirmation test was negative, but officials said they are treating the case as CWD.
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How Wisconsin Lost Control of the Strange Disease Killing Its Deer
Despite early containment efforts, chronic wasting disease has been allowed to run rampant in the state. That’s bad news for all of us.
“Highly contagious and 100 percent fatal to the cervids that contract it, CWD is not caused by living organisms such as bacteria or parasites, nor by a virus. Instead, it is caused by misfolded proteins called prions that, once they infect an animal, build up in the brain and body”
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Complete genome sequence of a vampire bat-related rabies virus obtained by metagenomics from a patient with encephalitis of unknown etiology, French Guiana https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39365087/
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