Two recent cases of prion disease in the U.S. may have been caused by contaminated deer meat, though the connection is still unproven.
A new study might point to the first signs of a frightening public health scenario: Researchers found two recent cases of prion disease—universally fatal ailments caused by rogue proteins—that could have been caused by the victims eating contaminated deer meat . This connection is still far from confirmed, but doctors are calling more research into the matter. The report was published earlier this month in the journal Neurology.
The threat of mad cow was successfully contained by the late 1990s, and only a few hundred people are thought to have gotten sick from eating contaminated meat. But another prion ailment has been spreading across deer and related animals in the U.S and Canada as of late, known as chronic wasting disease, or CWD. And the recent report authors suspect that history may now be repeating itself. Most cases of CJD are considered sporadic, appearing out of the blue for no apparent reason.
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