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The deer one is chronic wasting disease
I’ve heard concern of it becoming a pandemic in deer populations and also scientists are worried it’ll spread to people!
Yaaaaaaaaay. 🫠
It’s bonkers. It’s resistant to everything, persists after being burned, etc.
It's wild. Even after a deer with it dies it can remain in the soil for a couple of years. Burning and chemicals doesn't affect it. The prion is just there, hanging out, waiting in the soil and water until another deer comes along and gets it doing normal deer things.
It's caused by prions, which are definitely able to infect humans.
Prions are absolutely terrifying
I agree. I knew nothing about them until I went down a kuru rabbit hole the other night. Extremely freaky.