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TOPEKA, Kan (KSNT) – The Center for Disease Control has warned of a deadly disease spreading in the United States.
Chronic debilitating disease, known as "zombie deer disease," is a disease that infects the brain, spine, and tissues of deer, elk, and moose.
According to the CDCThe disease begins by infecting prion proteins in the brain and is transmitted by contact with body fluids and contaminated tissues.
Show of the afflicted animals symptoms like the leanness of forgetting to eat, excessive drooling and stumbling.
There is no treatment or vaccine against MDC and the disease is fatal.
The CDC sounded the alarm about the potential for human infection by the CWD, as a July 2017 study showed that monkeys eating infected deer meat contracted the disease.
There is no known case of CWD in a person.
However, the CDC has warned the public to test venison or elk meat for CWD before eating it in areas with documented infections.
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