Scientists have warned that a disease that turns deer into "zombies" could spread to humans, after a sharp rise in the number of cases across the United States.
Perilous virus is spreading; If it passes to humans, we're in for a "zombie" scenario
Scientists have warned that a disease that turns deer into "zombies" could spread to humans, after a sharp rise in the number of cases across the United States.
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As the British "Telegraph" writes, transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or "chronic wasting disease" (CWD) affects the brain of the infected animal and causes symptoms such as lethargy, nervousness, increased drooling and grinding of teeth with a "blank look" like a zombie.
Animals that are infected also have difficulty walking, lose weight and are not afraid of human contact.
According to information from the US Geological Institute, the disease has so far spread to 32 US states and four Canadian provinces.
In Kansas, Wisconsin and Nebraska, more than 40 counties have reported cases of the infection. It has also been found in approximately 800 deer throughout Wyoming.
"It is a disease that is inevitably fatal, incurable and highly contagious. The main problem is that we do not have an effective and simple way to eradicate it, in the animals it infects or in the environment it becomes contaminated," warned Cory Anderson, one of the leaders of the CWD program at University of Minnesota.
Michael Osterholm, an American epidemiologist who has warned of the risks of mad cow disease to humans, believes the spread of the disease across the US could become a "catastrophe" with the potential to spread beyond the animal kingdom.
In 2019, he also warned that laboratory research shows the likelihood of transmission to humans if contaminated meat is eaten.
"It is possible that the number of cases in humans will be significant and will not be isolated events," he added. The disease has been compared to mad cow disease because it is also spread by pathogenic proteins called prions and causes a range of dementia-like symptoms.
"If Stephen King could write a novel about infectious diseases, he would write about prions in this way," Osterholm said. Prion diseases belong to a family of rare brain diseases that affect humans and animals, including mad cow disease in cattle and a variant of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has expressed concern that spongiform encephalopathy may also pose a risk to humans, but so far they have not seen any cases of transmission of the infection.
The so-called "zombie deer disease" is similar (in genetics and transmission) to Britain's wave of "mad cow disease" in the 90s, when people were getting fatal neurological conditions from eating burgers.
Save your time lecturing someone more intelligent than you.
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Tell us all YOUR brilliant credentials.
You are simply another jealous Third World product, no doubt.
(Z, 2 January 2024 04:22)
More intelligent??? Do you mean yourself ha,ah,ah? Please your as dumb as an ox.
(sj, 4 January 2024 01:57)
Michael,
Save your time lecturing someone more intelligent than you.
Where are YOU from?
Tell us all YOUR brilliant credentials.
You are simply another jealous Third World product, no doubt.
(Z, 2 January 2024 04:22)
There is a cure for this and that would be eliminating the likes of Soros, Gates and Schwab first and then go and get their masters.
Stop making bioweapons and all will be well.
(Peggy, 1 January 2024 22:47)
American (sic) don’t really give a damn what Serbians think, but just remember NATO did Serbia a big favor for (sic) eliminating a cancer that is continuing to destroy Russia and a few other European countries that admire the doomed Putin.
(Jeannie, 30 December 2023 05:15) # Comment link
We don’t need doctors or blood tests to identify those suffering from the Zombie virus. Zombies self-identify by their actions and their words. Fortunately, there is a cure: stop consuming poisonous MSM and start reading books. It will take a few years of “Cold Turkey,” but normal cognitive abilities can be restored. Good Luck, Jeannie!
(Michael Thomas, 31 December 2023 18:01)
Those that hate "the West" always make the most brilliant comments.
(Z, 30 December 2023 10:42)
That's because they are smarter than the average American and they are literate unlike the average American who graduates from High School barely able to sigh their own name let alone post something that makes any sense.
(sj, 31 December 2023 07:33)
This story is typical of that written in the Serbian press and it is a thinly veiled desire to see America suffer. Because the U.S. was successful in ridding Serbia of the cancer fo kleptocracy ushered in by Milosevic and his cronies, many of whom continue to harbor the same misplaced blame for Serbia’s suffering. American don’t really give a damn what Serbians think, but just remember NATO did Serbia a big favor for eliminating a cancer that is continuing to destroy Russia and a few other European countries that admire the doomed Putin.
(Jeannie, 30 December 2023 05:15)
This virus infected the US populace a long time ago and they are already zombies. look at their Presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as one said a walking corpse and a narcissist.
(sj, 29 December 2023 12:57)
This virus infected the US populace a long time ago and they are already zombies. look at their Presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as one said a walking corpse and a narcissist.
(sj, 29 December 2023 12:57)
Those that hate "the West" always make the most brilliant comments.
(Z, 30 December 2023 10:42)
That's because they are smarter than the average American and they are literate unlike the average American who graduates from High School barely able to sigh their own name let alone post something that makes any sense.
(sj, 31 December 2023 07:33)
This story is typical of that written in the Serbian press and it is a thinly veiled desire to see America suffer. Because the U.S. was successful in ridding Serbia of the cancer fo kleptocracy ushered in by Milosevic and his cronies, many of whom continue to harbor the same misplaced blame for Serbia’s suffering. American don’t really give a damn what Serbians think, but just remember NATO did Serbia a big favor for eliminating a cancer that is continuing to destroy Russia and a few other European countries that admire the doomed Putin.
(Jeannie, 30 December 2023 05:15)
American (sic) don’t really give a damn what Serbians think, but just remember NATO did Serbia a big favor for (sic) eliminating a cancer that is continuing to destroy Russia and a few other European countries that admire the doomed Putin.
(Jeannie, 30 December 2023 05:15) # Comment link
We don’t need doctors or blood tests to identify those suffering from the Zombie virus. Zombies self-identify by their actions and their words. Fortunately, there is a cure: stop consuming poisonous MSM and start reading books. It will take a few years of “Cold Turkey,” but normal cognitive abilities can be restored. Good Luck, Jeannie!
(Michael Thomas, 31 December 2023 18:01)
There is a cure for this and that would be eliminating the likes of Soros, Gates and Schwab first and then go and get their masters.
Stop making bioweapons and all will be well.
(Peggy, 1 January 2024 22:47)
Save your time lecturing someone more intelligent than you.
Where are YOU from?
Tell us all YOUR brilliant credentials.
You are simply another jealous Third World product, no doubt.
(Z, 2 January 2024 04:22)
More intelligent??? Do you mean yourself ha,ah,ah? Please your as dumb as an ox.
(sj, 4 January 2024 01:57)
Michael,
Save your time lecturing someone more intelligent than you.
Where are YOU from?
Tell us all YOUR brilliant credentials.
You are simply another jealous Third World product, no doubt.
(Z, 2 January 2024 04:22)
This story is typical of that written in the Serbian press and it is a thinly veiled desire to see America suffer. Because the U.S. was successful in ridding Serbia of the cancer fo kleptocracy ushered in by Milosevic and his cronies, many of whom continue to harbor the same misplaced blame for Serbia’s suffering. American don’t really give a damn what Serbians think, but just remember NATO did Serbia a big favor for eliminating a cancer that is continuing to destroy Russia and a few other European countries that admire the doomed Putin.
(Jeannie, 30 December 2023 05:15)
This virus infected the US populace a long time ago and they are already zombies. look at their Presidential candidates, Joe Biden and Donald Trump, as one said a walking corpse and a narcissist.
(sj, 29 December 2023 12:57)
Those that hate "the West" always make the most brilliant comments.
(Z, 30 December 2023 10:42)
That's because they are smarter than the average American and they are literate unlike the average American who graduates from High School barely able to sigh their own name let alone post something that makes any sense.
(sj, 31 December 2023 07:33)
American (sic) don’t really give a damn what Serbians think, but just remember NATO did Serbia a big favor for (sic) eliminating a cancer that is continuing to destroy Russia and a few other European countries that admire the doomed Putin.
(Jeannie, 30 December 2023 05:15) # Comment link
We don’t need doctors or blood tests to identify those suffering from the Zombie virus. Zombies self-identify by their actions and their words. Fortunately, there is a cure: stop consuming poisonous MSM and start reading books. It will take a few years of “Cold Turkey,” but normal cognitive abilities can be restored. Good Luck, Jeannie!
(Michael Thomas, 31 December 2023 18:01)
Michael,
Save your time lecturing someone more intelligent than you.
Where are YOU from?
Tell us all YOUR brilliant credentials.
You are simply another jealous Third World product, no doubt.
(Z, 2 January 2024 04:22)
There is a cure for this and that would be eliminating the likes of Soros, Gates and Schwab first and then go and get their masters.
Stop making bioweapons and all will be well.
(Peggy, 1 January 2024 22:47)
Save your time lecturing someone more intelligent than you.
Where are YOU from?
Tell us all YOUR brilliant credentials.
You are simply another jealous Third World product, no doubt.
(Z, 2 January 2024 04:22)
More intelligent??? Do you mean yourself ha,ah,ah? Please your as dumb as an ox.
(sj, 4 January 2024 01:57)
