{"id":110347,"date":"2022-09-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/it-s-not-clear-how-much-of-a-threat-the-zombie-deer-disease-is-to-humans"},"modified":"2022-09-12T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T01:00:00","slug":"it-s-not-clear-how-much-of-a-threat-the-zombie-deer-disease-is-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/it-s-not-clear-how-much-of-a-threat-the-zombie-deer-disease-is-to-humans","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not clear how much of a threat the &#8216;zombie deer&#8217; disease is to humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic wasting disease has been making deer and elk sick all over the country. Lars Nissen \/ Pixabay This article was originally featured on Outdoor Life . A recent study reported here suggesting that chronic wasting disease may cross species barriers more capably than previously thought is getting a skeptical reception by fellow scientists who question its methodology. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Calgary, aimed to assess the potential for CWD to infect humans by using &#8220;humanized mice&#8221; in place of actual people in the research. The findings, published in the journal Acta Neuropathologica last month, claimed that mice with human prion protein showed signs of CWD following injection of CWD prions directly into their brains. [ Read more: &#8220;&#8216;Zombie deer&#8217; disease is killing herds across the country &#8220; ] Those findings raised alarms in the deer-hunting community as evidence that CWD, a fatal neurological disease caused by malformed proteins called prions, might infect humans who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chronic wasting disease has been making deer and elk sick all over the country. Lars Nissen \/ Pixabay A Canadian study used &#8220;humanized mice&#8221; to show CWD can infect humans,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[185,351],"class_list":["post-110347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}