Are swallowed ticks spreading chronic wasting disease in wild deer?
Ongoing research into the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in whitetail deer has identified a tiny new piece of the puzzle: ticks. University scientists from Wisconsin and Minnesota discovered single deer ticks (a.k.a. blacklegged ticks) in the wild, taken off the heads of CWD-infected deer, with enough disease-causing prions inside of them to spread the disease. Hypothetically, a ...
University Of Wisconsin United States University Of Minnesota Stuart Lichtenberg Heather Inzalaco Wisconsin Department Of Natural Resources
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