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The Deadly Threat Waiting in Our Forests2

It Could Happen Here

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Chronic Warrior Disease

Chronic wasting disease can be easily described as the dear equivalent of mad cow disease. Once you build up enough pryons that are misfolded, like the prions in the brain start misfolding, and then slowly, your brain just starts, stops functioning correctly. The name chronic wasting disease comes from because they like wasting away. It also makes it really easy to identify whenit's its advantages in deer. But why do we care? We are people.

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