That Florida The Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has detected a second case Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)A disease which has 100 percent death judge between deer.
The first case of the disease (in 2025) was detected in the neighboring Sunshine State, Georgia.
The University of Minnesota reported at the time that it was the 36th US state to report what its academic institution called “fatal prion disease.”
Florida has implemented a “disease response plan”
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Florida Conservation Services notes that the latest case was detected in Holmes County near the state’s border with Georgia—close to where Georgia found their first case.
“The recent case is a street case-[fatality] A 1.5-year-old doe sampled less than a mile south of Florida detection in 2023,” the agency announced on its website.
The 2023 case involved a white-tailed deer that was hit by a vehicle on the highway. This discovery prompted a “disease response plan.”
Florida’s conservation agency said it is taking the diagnosis seriously
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Like the promise that accompanied his announcement two years ago, the latest confirmation states:
“FWC and its partner agencies take CWD very seriously and are continuing their comprehensive response plan with the goal of containing this disease in areas where it is detected.”
“Because the second case is similar to the initial case, there will be no changes to the Management or Improvement of the Surveillance Zone,” the website stated.
Florida has tested 2,500 deer for the disease
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The state website shows that the state has examined a total of 2,406 deer, and confirmed that 2 deer tested positive for CWD.
FWC details also show that 90 evaluations are still pending.
Experts advise not to eat the meat of animals affected by this disease for fear of causing diseases such as mad cow disease
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@ericaachristinee I don’t know what’s wrong with it, but apparently it’s a skin fibroma caused by a virus specific to deer and usually harmless to them, but my goodness, it looks painful 😣 #deer #nc #papillomavirus ♬ this is everything to me – I don’t like mirrors
University of Minnesota explain it is a “fatal neurodegenerative disease”, caused by “infectious misfolded proteins” or prions.
The academic institution’s online platform notes that the disease can be transmitted by other members of the Cervidae family, such as deer and moose, through “environmental contamination.”
Although not known to affect humans, the experts advises against eating affected animals for fear that it could trigger bovine spongiform encephalopathy, better known as mad cow disease.
It should be noted that in addition to weight loss and body function in the final stages diseaseThere is NO visual symptoms in affected animals.
CWD is different from the wart-like skin fibromas found in deer, wild rabbits, and squirrels.
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Social media has caught wind of the outbreak, and one netizen commented, “Eating zombie deer is 100% safer than anything you buy at your local grocery store.”
The term “zombie deer” is the term given to a cervix that appears to have large warts on its skin.
These unsightly growths are known as cutaneous fibromas, which can be transmitted from deer, rabbits, and squirrels but are relatively harmless to their hosts.
In contrast to fatal CWD, the only time a cutaneous fibroma can cause the death of its host is when it affects their ability to forage and eat or avoid predators.
The term “zombie deer” has been applied to animals with skin fibromas and, more recently, to animals with CWD.
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“What exactly is a zombie deer?” asked another netizenunfamiliar with terms related to warty animals
“It’s CWD (Chronic Wasting Disease),” one other person answered incorrectly, “similar to mad cow but only transmitted by deer, moose and the like.”
CWD has since been addressed at the federal level, with Congress spending $35 million annually
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“These deer are called zombie deer because of what happens… ‘weight loss, poor coordination, drooling, and blank stares, as their brains deteriorate to become like sponges’,” tried another.
“It doesn’t mean walking around [deceased]in process [expiring].”
CWD has since been addressed at the federal level, with the Chronic Wasting Disease Research and Management Act approved by Congress in December 2022.
The bill allocates $35 million annually for animal disease research, focusing on detection in live animals, prevention, and understanding the causes of the disease’s spread. disease.
A netizen, in the wake of COVID, wondered in which laboratory CWD was generated
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