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Chronic Wasting Disease in Animals
Causes and Spread
CWD is a type of prion disease. These diseases occur when proteins normally in the body misfold, causing symptoms that eventually result in death.
CWD affects many different species of animals with hooves.
Can dogs get cwd
Other prion diseases in animals are bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cows and scrapie in sheep and goats.
Scientists think CWD spreads between animals through contact with saliva, blood, urine or feces of an animal with CWD.
They suspect it can also spread indirectly through the environment, such as in soil, drinking water or food.
Once an animal gets sick, the disease moves to its brain and spine and eventually kills the animal. CWD does not appear to naturally infect cows, other livestock or pets.
The U.S.
Department of Agriculture regulates deer and elk raised on farms for meat. The agency operates a voluntary national CWD herd certification program. In the program, states and herd owners agree to take actions to decrease the risk of CWD in their herds.
Privately owned herds that are not in the program may be at in
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