Article
No Evidence of Uptake or Propagation of Reindeer CWD Prions in Environmentally Exposed Sheep
2021-10-05
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<h4>Background: </h4> Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease of cervids. In 2016, CWD was discovered for the first time in reindeer. The affected population was situated in Nordfjella mountain region in Norway. In an attempt to eradicate the disease, all reindeer in the region were culled during winter 2017-18. Because many sheep have their summer pasture in Nordfjella, concern exists about the potential...
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- Literature Corpus work
- a111ca95-b4ec-5a86-acbc-e4adade50c66
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-923104/v1
