👿 24 December 2023: DAILY MAIL > In recent years, the virus spread to more than 31 US states, two Canadian provinces and even South Korea, according to the US Geological Survey.

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PUBLISHED: 00:28 EST, 24 December 2023
UPDATED: 00:28 EST, 24 December 2023
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‘We’re talking about the potential of something similar occurring,’ said Anderson, the program co-director at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy.

He added: ‘No one is saying that it’s definitely going to happen, but it’s important for people to be prepared.’

According to Anderson, whose study focused on the pathways of CWD transmission, the disease is ‘invariably fatal, incurable, and highly contagious,’ he said.

‘Baked into the worry is that we don’t have an effective easy way to eradicate it, neither from the animals it infects nor the environment it contaminates.’

CWD is a prion-transmitted disease, similar to ‘Mad Cow,’ which can cause weight loss, loss of coordination and other eventually fatal neurological symptoms in deer and related species.

The US National Park Service said last month: ‘There is currently no evidence that CWD can infect humans or domestic animal species.’
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