Zombie Deer Disease

Experts have termed the zombie deer disease a slow-moving disaster and have urged governments to prepare for the possibility of it spreading to humans.

The deadly and infectious chronic wasting disease (CWD), also known as zombie deer disease, affects cervids, which are deer, elk, caribou, reindeer, and moose.
The neurological symptoms of the disease, which include weight loss, lack of coordination, lethargic behavior, listlessness, and drooling.
It is brought on by a protein called a prion that is flawed and builds up in the brain and other tissues, leading to emaciation, behavioral and physiological abnormalities, and finally death.

The US Geological Survey claims that CWD was first detected in Colorado in 1967 and has since spread to several other states and nations.

Transmission - The condition may take more than a year to incubate, and symptoms may take time to appear.
Animals can contract it directly from one another or indirectly by coming into contact with infected particles that linger in the environment, such as soil, plants, or excrement.
They can also become infected if prions carrying the infection contaminate an animal's feed or pasture.
Treatment - There is currently no vaccination or cure for the zombie deer disease.
In humans - There has never been a reported case of zombie deer disease in a human.

Mad Cow Disease

It is also know by the name Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

BSE is a progressive neurological disorder of cattle that results from infection by an unusual transmissible agent called a prion.
The normal prion protein changes into a pathogenic (harmful) form that then damages the central nervous system of cattle.
The disease is incurable.
It is related to a disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD).

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