Species barrier may protect macaques from chronic wasting disease

Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 10:21 in Health & Medicine

Data from an ongoing multi-year study suggest that people who consume deer and elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be protected from infection by an inability of the CWD infectious agent to spread to people.

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