Once an animal gets sick, the disease moves through the brain, spine and eventually kills the animal. CWD prions, a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally ...

He said CWD is a disease of the brain where misfolded proteins known as prions eventually create holes in the brain tissue causing the deer to slowly die. The disease could be spread by an ...

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the disease moves to its brain and spine and eventually kills the animal,” the CDC says. There is no treatment or vaccine for CWD. A deer may not show any signs of CWD until 18 to 24 months ...