Both men hunted at the same lodge and consumed meat from the same deer population before ... folding of proteins in the brain ...

Two deer hunters died from a rare brain disease after they ate venison possibly tainted with chronic wasting disease, ...

Chronic wasting disease might just be the most terrifying illness you’ve never heard of. It slowly ... [+] turns the brains of infected deer (and ... effect in the brain. To understand how ...

a malady caused by a misshaped protein that kills deer by destroying brain and nerve tissue. As with similar prion diseases, including scrapie in sheep, mad cow in cattle and Creutzfeldt–Jakob ...

It attacks the brain. It has a 100 per cent fatality rate. And it has spread all across southern and central Alberta. Fifteen years ago, chronic wasting disease was rare in the province's deer ...

It attacks the brain, has a 100 per cent fatality rate, and is spreading quickly through Alberta's deer population. Researchers across western Canada, including Sabine Gilch in Alberta, are working on ...

Attacking the brain, it spreads in populations of deer that share the same spaces, which is why the province has said urban populations are of particular concern as more animals mix together in ...