A new report calls for further study into a possible link between chronic wasting disease in deer and a rare and deadly brain disease in humans.
Researchers have drawn a possible link between the deaths of two hunters in the last couple of years from a rare neurological condition. A report, authored by medical experts from the University of Texas at San Antonio and published earlier this month in the clinical journal Neurology, suggests the men contracted it by consuming venison from deer infected with chronic wasting disease, a degenerative illness not conclusively shown to be transmissible from animals to humans.
While they are not well understood, exposure to certain pathogens that then trigger the brain proteins to fold is believed to be the cause.
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