FAJAR.CO.ID, CANADA — A report from Canada has worried deer hunters. The reason is, a deer died because it was infected with a strange plague called the ‘Zombie Virus’. So that the deer looks thin to death.
According to VICE World News, a strange, debilitating and highly contagious virus in Canadian herd of deer. In some parts of Canada, the disease is also called Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), which is a worrying occurrence.
“This epidemic is spreading among deer in meadows and parks,” said Margo Pybus, a wildlife disease expert in the Alberta government department of fish and wildlife and researcher at the University of Alberta, Margo Pybus.
The disease originally appeared in Canada in 1996 on deer farms and later spread to wild populations. Although deer are the most common host for CWD in North America, the disease can infect any cervid, including elk, moose, and caribou. Infected animals immediately become sick, become thin and weak.
According to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission, chronic wasting disease takes over the deer’s nervous system and is always lethal. They may also lose the deer’s fear of people and other predators.
Symptoms
Deer infected with this virus show symptoms such as drooling, stumbling, poor coordination, sadness, behavioral abnormalities, and paralysis. Because of these symptoms, some observers have dubbed CWD a ‘zombie virus’ disease. That’s mainly because deer can also spread disease through animal-to-animal contact, mainly through urine and saliva. The incubation period until the onset of CWD symptoms can be in the last month.
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