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Risks from CWD prions More facts on infectious human and animal prion diseases: Scientists have confirmed Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a transmissible, infectious prion disease. (Jucker, M 2010, Soto, C. 2011, Prusiner, S. 2012) There are over 6 million AD patients in the US. The epidemic...

It is misleading to tell the public that there are no health risks from eating meat from an animal infected with Chronic Wasting Disease. To the contrary, scientists have identified a new strain of human prion disease as CWD-huPrPSc http://www.jbc.org/cgi/doi/10.1074/jbc.M110.198465...