Episode 128: The Death of Eastern Forests
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The Dangers of Chronic Wilting Disease
The pryon's have a way of just surviving on stuff like surgical instruments. And so, one of the potential things to worry about is that you had surgery in Britain at any point until we started doing that. The other really not fun part of CJD, or sorry, chronic wasting disease, is it persists in the soil. A deer can get chronic wasting disease from eating plants that have taken up the pryon protein.
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