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Chronic Wasting Disease: Prion Ecology

A Devilish Diseases essay on chronic wasting disease, prions, wildlife ecology, deer populations, surveillance, and spillover anxiety.

Indexed essay March 27, 2025 By Devin Teichrow scienceinfectious diseasezoologyepidemiologybiology

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Disease Ecology

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chronic wasting disease

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By Devin Teichrow. Published March 27, 2025.

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A Devilish Diseases essay on chronic wasting disease, prions, wildlife ecology, deer populations, surveillance, and spillover anxiety.

A new direction for the Devilish Diseases series. We've covered all of the transmissible cancers in the wild, now on to other intriguing diseases in the animal kingdom.

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