RIAU24.COM – We have heard some rumors spread by anti-vaxxers that vaccinated people will eventually turn into zombies. It turns out there is a disease called zombie disease and deer are killing it. Canada.
A strange, debilitating and highly contagious infection is spreading through Canada’s deer population, according to VICE World News.
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There is an epidemic of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in parts of Canada, which is an alarming phenomenon. Margo Pybus, a wildlife disease specialist with the Government of Alberta’s Fish and Wildlife division and a researcher at the University of Alberta, said: “This epidemic is raging among deer on the prairies and parks. »
In Canada, the disease first appeared in 1996 on deer farms and later spread to wild populations. CWD was detected through samples submitted through hunter monitoring programs, in which hunters provide samples from harvested animals to check for disease.
Unlike bacteria and viruses that hijack host cells, no genetic information is involved in infection with prion diseases such as CWD.
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Deer are the most common host of this disease in North America, but CWD is capable of infecting any deer, including elk, moose, and caribou. Infected animals eventually become ill, lose weight and become weak.
They may even lose their fear of humans and other predators and show signs of drooling, stumbling, poor coordination, depression, behavioral changes and paralysis.
These symptoms have led some to refer to CWD as a “zombie disease,” especially since deer can also transmit the disease through animal-to-animal contact, including urine and saliva. CWD can take up to two years for infected deer to show outward symptoms, which actually only appear in the later stages, perhaps in the last month or so, of infection.
Can humans be infected?
To date, no human cases have been recorded. However, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “strongly recommends” harvesting deer in areas where CWD is present before consuming them, and not eating the meat if test results are positive. This concern is mainly based on previous cases of prion diseases jumping from one species to another, such as the outbreak of mad cow disease in the 1980s and 1990s that killed at least 232 people.
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