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Zombie deer disease spreads: ‘There may also be a risk to people’
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0:43Now PlayingDespite ongoing efforts to curtail its spread in the U.S. and abroad, the lethal chronic wasting disease (CWD) remains a threat — with no vaccine or cure.
In 2005, the “zombie deer” disease struck New York after several deer infected with chronic wasting disease (CWD) escaped from a fenced-in pen in Oneida County, a largely rural area in upstate New York.
Only a swift, aggressive culling operation by the New York Department of Environmental Conservation — resulting in the slaughter of hundreds of deer, with the cooperation of local hunters — was able to stop the outbreak.
To date, New York is the only state to have eliminated CWD from its population of deer, moose and elk.
But CWD has continued to spread worldwide, and many regions of the country are on the alert for the illness in wild and penned animals.
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