Zombie deer disease is a name that might just make you laugh for a moment. In fact, we are talking about another serious threat to the health of modern societies. Doctors warn that this neurological disease, which causes terrible suffering, can also be transmitted to humans.
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– We have a case disease, which is fatal, incurable and highly contagious. What worries us is that we don't have an effective and simple way to eliminate it, he said in an interview with a well-known newspaper. “the guard” Dr. Corey Anderson of the University of Minnesota.
He is sounding the alarm on this issue Zombie deer diseases. Currently, it has been reported in most US states and parts of Canada. In more textbook terms, this is a threat Health is called Chronic Fatigue Disease.
Zombie deer disease. This is what CWD is
Affected organisms have problems with the proper functioning of proteins in the brain, which leads to behavioral changes and physiological reactions (vision error, salivation, etc.) CWD infection (abbreviation of the English name Chronic Fatigue Disease) ends with death.
The most at risk from the disease are deer and other similar animals – hogs, deer, mule deer and caribou. However, American scientists warn that such a phenomenon is common Zombie deer diseases It may start to spread to humans as well.
Dr. Michael Osterholm speaks most loudly about this and focuses on certain issues CWD's similarity to the so-called mad cow disease. In his case, it was not believed for a long time that it could be transmitted to humans.
– The UK's mad cow disease outbreak is an example of how things can go wrong overnight when a disease spreads from farm animals to humans, a respected epidemiologist has warned. USA Today.
The danger is mainly due to the fact that The virus responsible for zombie deer disease is resistant to disinfectants. It can become infected not only after contact with the carrier, but also from the vegetation with which it was in contact.
COVID-19 doesn't let us forget that either. The number of infected people in Poland is increasing
Meanwhile, the world has not yet said goodbye to the threat of others A disease that is rapidly transmitted from animals to humans. COVID-19 continues to pose a threat to public health. how We mentioned it on naTemat.plAt the end of 2023, the coronavirus infection curve in Poland increased again.
Recently, more than a thousand new registered cases of Kovid-19 have been recorded per day. Such a large daily increase in the number of infected people was not observed in the Vistula region until last spring.
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