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Originally Posted by Don Meredith
All true, but it is speculated that the CWD prion might have developed from Scrapie, as sheep with that disease were present in the area where the disease was first detected in the 1970s/80s (Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska).
http://aep.alberta.ca/fish-wildlife/...se-Oct2014.pdf |
Fort Collins Colorado
A state division of wildlife biologist believes a nutritional study he conducted with deer, sheep and goats in the late 1960's might have been the genesis of CWD.
Shoonveld suspects some of the sheep in the study had scrapie, a relative of CWD.
Some of the deer might have been infected with scrapie which mutated into CWD and spread to other deer.
The sheep and deer were penned together from 1968 to 1971.