Chronic Wasting Disease 22 images Created 1 Mar 2023
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting whitetails and mule deer, elk, moose, carivou and reindeer. TSEs are thought to be caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as mad cow disease in cattle, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans and scrapie in sheep.
