Chronic Wasting Disease Spreads Silently in Symptom-Free Animals, Raising Questions About Long-Term Human Risk

1. A University of Calgary study published in Science Advances this month found that chronic wasting disease can spread silently in animals with no clinical symptoms, and demonstrated limited but detectable cross-species prion transmission in nonhuman primate models. 2. There are no confirmed human cases, but the expanding geographic footprint of the disease in wild […] The post Chronic Wasting…