How to Detect a Pryon Disease in Animals

Chronic wasting disease can take a long time for symptoms to show up in humans. It takes like forty years for enough prions to build up in your brain for it tol, you know, start to show symptoms. If chronic wasting disease crosses from humans to cows, the impact of that is going to be huge. The economic damage is incalculable. And we don't always have to get human side scary. Sometimes things work in monkeys and hampsters that don't work in humans. That's what keeps me awake at night. We'll be playing some of our favorite country music each week day morning here on Countryfile.