Research shows possible human health risk with Chronic Wasting Disease - Daily Leader

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Research shows possible human health risk with Chronic Wasting Disease - Daily Leader

JACKSON — A pair of deer hunters from an area where CWD positive deer lived, died after contracting Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) according to a recently presented poster at the Neurology 2024 Annual meeting in April. The abstract of the presentation is available on the Neorology.org website.  The poster does not disclose where the associated CWD cases were or where the men lived. Instead, the research simply points out the men died of CJD aft…