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Researchers at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have reported how two hunters who ate venison from a deer population known to have CWD died in 2022 after developing sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)


The 2022 deaths of two hunters who ate venison infected with chronic wasting disease (CWD) has raised concerns the illness could pass to humans.

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