(Letter) Julie Marshall: Mountain lions key to solution for Chronic Wasting Disease

(Letter) Julie Marshall: Mountain lions key to solution for Chronic Wasting Disease

It’s significant news for Colorado that Chronic Wasting Disease has been detected in Yellowstone National Park. CWD is where infectious proteins (prions) mutate and slowly kill cells, leaving holes like Swiss cheese in the brain; the body wastes away, and death is always certain. Also called “zombie deer disease,” it will transform lithe, prancing deer into thin, frail and stumbling ghosts of themselves. CWD has been reported in a whopping 31 st…