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A fatal disease is spreading amongst Alberta's deer population. Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a brain disease that affects ...

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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow." ...

Chronic wasting disease slowly turns the brains of infected deer (and other cervids) into spongy, deteriorating masses, triggering bizarre behavior and, inevitably, a fatal outcome.

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Chronic Wasting Disease or CWD is a neurological disease that affects animals such as deer, mule deer, elk, and moose (cervids). Once an animal is infected, there is no cure, and it is 100% fatal. It ...