Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months ago‘Zombie deer disease’ epidemic spreads in Yellowstone as scientists raise fears it may jump to humanswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square174fedilinkarrow-up1440arrow-down17cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
arrow-up1433arrow-down1external-link‘Zombie deer disease’ epidemic spreads in Yellowstone as scientists raise fears it may jump to humanswww.theguardian.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agomessage-square174fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected][email protected][email protected][email protected]
minus-squarestarman2112linkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoThe only good thing about prions is that they don’t mutate. CWD may extinctify deer, but it can’t just jump to humans like bat-borne coronaviruses can
minus-squaretygerprints@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agoI hope not. You’d think humans would never want to eat a bat anyway - but apparently some have.
The only good thing about prions is that they don’t mutate. CWD may extinctify deer, but it can’t just jump to humans like bat-borne coronaviruses can
I hope not. You’d think humans would never want to eat a bat anyway - but apparently some have.