MINNEAPOLIS – The state is funding a multi-country project led by the University of Minnesota to prepare for a possible chronic wasting disease spillover from deer to farm animals or humans.
Program co-director Cory Anderson says while there are no known cases of CWD spillover at this time something similar did occur with another neuro-degenerative disorder.
He notes that mad cow disease emerged in the United Kingdom and there was a spillover to humans. Anderson says the similarity they are seeing with CWD is ongoing transmission in deer, elk, and moose, which highly increases exposure to humans eating animals that weren’t tested or were tested and came back positive.
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