Publication date: Jun 19, 2024
The five authors speculated the illness could have been caused by their frequent venison consumption (prions have been found in the muscle tissue of deer). First discovered in deer in Colorado in 1967, CWD has since spread, primarily through wild and captive deer populations, across the United States, Canada, and globally. One of the chief concerns is that CWD prions will jump the species barrier into humans, similar to the way the AIDS virus moved from chimpanzees into humans. And the infected deer are outputting those prions into the environment in their feces and their urine every day. Thats a lot of prions in the environment. How the prions will evolve is another major unknown. More than 200 people who ate the infected beef died of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, primarily in Europe. One of the men died of the disease within a month of showing symptoms, the other died later.
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| Annually | Cwd |
| Parkinsons | Deer |
| Veterinarian | Disease |
| Yellowstone | Experts |
| Zombie | Found |
| Infected | |
| Infectious | |
| Prion | |
| Prions | |
| Said | |
| Spread | |
| Wild | |
| Wildlife | |
| Years | |
| Yellowstone |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| drug | DRUGBANK | Water |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Nonoxynol-9 |
| disease | MESH | Covid-19 |
| pathway | REACTOME | Infectious disease |
| disease | MESH | infectious disease |
| disease | MESH | Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
| disease | MESH | causes |
| disease | MESH | death |
| disease | MESH | chronic wasting disease |
| disease | MESH | cause of death |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Albendazole |
| disease | MESH | multiple sclerosis |
| disease | MESH | bovine spongiform encephalopathy |
| pathway | KEGG | Prion disease |
| disease | MESH | prion disease |