HEADS UP, AMERICA: ANIMAL-BORNE DISEASES ARE CLOSER THAN YOU THINK.

Outlet: Ensia

Ensia: CWD is a fatal-to-deer neurodegenerative disease caused by an abnormally folded cell-surface protein called a prion. First observed in captive deer at a Colorado government research facility in the late 1960s, it was later described by Colorado State University graduate student Beth S. Williams, who became one of the foremost experts on the disease.

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