The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission announced last week that Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was detected in a roadkill deer sampled for routine surveillance in Holmes County, Fla., a first for that state. Chronic Wasting Disease is a fatal neurological disease of deer, elk, and moose caused by infectious proteins called prions.
Currently, there are no treatments, and ...
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