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Yeah, this is a prion disease sort of like Mad Cow. It would be very, very bad if it ended up in humans. There is no treatment or cure, your body just slowly and painfully dies. I don't like the click-bait title but at the same time, this is not something they can in-theory even make a vaccine for (even if you did trust them).

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>A 'zombie deer' disease that is fatal to every animal it infects could soon spill over into humans — if it hasn't already, according to an alarming new report. Experts have been warning for years that the nearly 100 percent fatal chronic wasting disease (CWD) —which leaves deer confused, drooling, and unafraid of humans — could jump from animals to people. The disease has now been found in wild pigs that eat infected meat, with researchers warning it is steps away from spreading to domestic pigs — and then humans. Dr Michael Osterholm, a top infectious diseases researcher at the University of Minnesota, warned: 'We have some limited data now suggesting that feral pigs might be infected.

Yeah, this is a prion disease sort of like Mad Cow. It would be very, very bad if it ended up in humans. There is no treatment or cure, your body just slowly and painfully dies. I don't like the click-bait title but at the same time, this is not something they can in-theory even make a vaccine for (even if you did trust them). Archive: https://archive.today/Xl7ud From the post: >>A 'zombie deer' disease that is fatal to every animal it infects could soon spill over into humans — if it hasn't already, according to an alarming new report. Experts have been warning for years that the nearly 100 percent fatal chronic wasting disease (CWD) —which leaves deer confused, drooling, and unafraid of humans — could jump from animals to people. The disease has now been found in wild pigs that eat infected meat, with researchers warning it is steps away from spreading to domestic pigs — and then humans. Dr Michael Osterholm, a top infectious diseases researcher at the University of Minnesota, warned: 'We have some limited data now suggesting that feral pigs might be infected.
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The important question is where the deer got it and how it’s spreading among them. They’re not crammed into pens like cattle. They may not be getting it from each other. They may all be getting it from another source. Is there a parasite growing on some plant they eat that causes this?

As for the wild pigs, they’re not native to North America in the first place. If they die, they die. Maybe this and an another open hunting season will finally finish them off, but I doubt we’re that lucky.

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It could be a ton of places. Deer do eat meat too but its more of a "opportunity" thing. It could be transferred by them eating parts of another deer that was infected somehow.

Though, they are known to eat small animals like rabbits, squirrels, chipmunks, etc.