Grilling the meat substantially boosted detection of the prions, which the authors say may be because heat helps release prions trapped in the tissue.
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The 27 detections from the 2019 hunting season were confined to southeastern Minnesota.
"We know almost nothing about sexual transmission and prion diseases," one expert says.
The World Health Organization's (WHO's) online Ebola dashboard reflects 5 new cases of the viral disease over the weekend, including 3 cases reported today. The outbreak total now stands at 3,398, including 2,235 fatalities.
Officials are still investigating 410 suspected cases.
Wisconsin officials have confirmed 405 cases of chronic wasting disease (CWD) on state deer farms and hunting ranches since 2002, with 105 of those occurring since November 2018, Wisconsin Public Radio reported yesterday.
CWD is a deadly prion disease that affects deer, elk, and other cervids but has not yet been detected in people.
Earlier sites of CWD prion transmission in Minnesota have links to cervid farms.
Officials report new CWD cases in previously unaffected parts of Texas and Montana.
The Minnesota Board of Animal Health voted unanimously against a mandatory 30-day state lockdown that would have banned shipping deer in and out of captive deer facilities, and instead opted for a voluntary lockdown for the state's 330 deer farmers.
Today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) British authors offered evidence supporting a long-observed phenomenon of the cold and flu season: Having either a rhinovirus or influenza makes a person less likely to contract the other virus.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said a multistate outbreak of Escherichia coli is connected to romaine lettuce grown in the Salinas, California growing region and is advising people not to eat romaine from that area.
Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced today that a wild white-tailed buck harvested during the state's recent archery season in Dunn County near Menomonie in the western part of state has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD).
News of the CWD detection comes on the eve of the opening of Wisconsin's 9-day gun deer season.
