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It’s deer season! With a harvest, it’s important to take precautions against Chronic Wasting Disease, a prion disease in deer. Heather Inzalaco from the Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at […] The post A “tick”-tac of CWD appeared first on WORT-FM 89.9.

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It’s deer season! With a harvest, it’s important to take precautions against Chronic Wasting Disease, a prion disease in deer.
Heather Inzalaco from the Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at UW-Madison tells us about CWD, and a new creepy-crawly place where she found it lurking.
More information about this research is available here:
https://news.wisc.edu/ticks-may-be-able-to-spread-chronic-wasting-disease-between-wisconsin-deer/
https://www.wendyturner.org/
 
Image: Paul Danese, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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It’s deer season! With a harvest, it’s important to take precautions against Chronic Wasting Disease, a prion disease in deer. Heather Inzalaco from the Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at […]
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28:43
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2023-10-20 04:00
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https://www.wortfm.org/a-tick-tac-of-cwd/
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It’s deer season! With a harvest, it’s important to take precautions against Chronic Wasting Disease, a prion disease in deer.
Heather Inzalaco from the Wisconsin Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit at UW-Madison tells us about CWD, and a new creepy-crawly place where she found it lurking.

More information about this research is available here:
https://news.wisc.edu/ticks-may-be-able-to-spread-chronic-wasting-disease-between-wisconsin-deer/
https://www.wendyturner.org/

 

Image: Paul Danese, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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