Such terrific news on finding deer with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD). This is a prion disease, similar to 'Mad Cow' disease and even Alzheimer (and more). Prions have been researched for quite a while now, and this report focuses on using dogs to track CWD. Volatile odors of feces and urine can be used to discriminate between infected and noninfected animals in several different species.
#Dogs , y'all!
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0303225
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