Post by Logan on Jun 5, 2016 10:54:37 GMT -6
Arkansas emerged this spring as America's hot spot for chronic wasting disease, a fatal infection that strikes mostly deer and elk.
The brain-wasting illness spreads animal to animal.
It also contaminates plants and soil through victims' body fluids. Even years later, healthy animals that graze on the tainted ground can sicken and die.
So far, science has found no treatment or vaccine for the infection, no effective cleanup for the soil, no method to stop the disease's spread.
Since discovering its first infected animal in February, Arkansas has reported some of the highest initial concentrations of chronic wasting disease of any state in at least 15 years, according to data gathered by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jun/05/a-killer-in-the-herds-20160605/?latest
The brain-wasting illness spreads animal to animal.
It also contaminates plants and soil through victims' body fluids. Even years later, healthy animals that graze on the tainted ground can sicken and die.
So far, science has found no treatment or vaccine for the infection, no effective cleanup for the soil, no method to stop the disease's spread.
Since discovering its first infected animal in February, Arkansas has reported some of the highest initial concentrations of chronic wasting disease of any state in at least 15 years, according to data gathered by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Read more: www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jun/05/a-killer-in-the-herds-20160605/?latest