A recent case report has stoked fears that deer can transmit universally fatal prions to humans. Outside experts remain skeptical.
Earlier this year, a team of scientists garnered a wave of media attention with their provocative report: They claimed to have found two cases of a rare but fatal prion disease in hunters that could have plausibly been caused by them eating contaminated deer meat —a frightening reminder of the mad cow crisis over 30 years ago. But many outside experts don’t agree, and recent research has disputed that such a thing is even possible—at least for now.
” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was more generous, with CDC epidemiologist Ryan Maddox telling USA Today in late April that it was important to assess the potential risk of CWD transmission to humans, but also that the CDC had looked into the cases and ruled out a link to CWD.
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