by Niamh Harris, The Peoples Voice:
US researchers have sounded the alarm over a spike in cases of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) among wildlife across North America warning that the deadly virus could spread to humans.
The disease dubbed the ‘zombie deer disease’, attacks the brains, nervous systems, and other tissues of cervids, deer, elk, moose, reindeer and others. The brains of infected animals develop holes and become spongy with a fatal condition, that is similar to mad cow disease of the 1980s.