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chronic wasting disease

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Noun1.chronic wasting disease - a wildlife disease (akin to bovine spongiform encephalitis) that affects deer and elk
animal disease - a disease that typically does not affect human beings


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Chronic wasting disease is included briefly in a chapter on potential food pathogens, which makes the omission of bovine spongiform encephalopathy all the more striking.
Foodborne Pathogens: Microbiology and Molecular Biology by Balter, Sharon / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Any elk that dies on my property, whether naturally or by hunting, has its brain tested for chronic wasting disease (CWD).
American liberty at risk: elk rancher Rex Rammell watched Idaho's ... by Rammell, Rex / The New American
Three oral doses of saliva from a deer sick with chronic wasting disease passed the infection to other deer kept in isolation suites indoors, reports Edward Hoover of Colorado State University in Fort Collins.
Wasting deer: deer saliva and blood can carry prions by Milius, S. / Science News
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