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PRO/AH/EDR> Chronic wasting disease, macaque – Canada: susceptible
Chronic Wasting Disease -- CanadaMacaque monkeys contracted chronic wasting disease after eating meat from CWD-positive deer, according to Canadian researchers. The findings are the 1st known oral transmissions of the prion disease to a primate and have heightened concerns of human susceptibility to CWD."The assumption was for the longest time that chronic wasting disease was not a threat to human health," said Stefanie Czub, prion researcher with the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, in remarks published Read more [...]
