A new study has heightened concerns. Canadian researchers found that macaque monkeys contracted [the disease] (CWD) after eating infected deer. The results mark the first time the disease has been shown to spread to a primate through meat, rather than through a direct injection of CWD prions into the nervous system.
“While most research shows there’s a robust species barrier, this recent study showed that barrier might not be quite as robust as we once thought,” Dunfee said.
Research by Mark Zabel, the associate director of the Prion Research Center at Colorado State University, has found the agents behind the “zombie disease” are highly susceptible to change and are likely still evolving.
[–] Inconceivable2 ago
It's a prion just like mad cow disease, which we know has already spread to humans. Only a matter of time perhaps.