Friday, 30 June 2017

PRO/AH/EDR> Chronic wasting disease, macaque - Canada: susceptible

Chronic Wasting Disease -- Canada
Macaque 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 June 24 [2017] in

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