‘Zombie deer disease’ has now spread to 33 states in the US [Video]

“Zombie deer disease,” officially known as chronic wasting disease, has been detected in 33 states across the United States.

The Indiana Department of Natural Resources announced that, for the first time in the state, they found the disease in a white-tailed deer taken by a hunter during deer season in LaGrange County earlier this month.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CWD is a highly contagious and fatal disease that is caused by an abnormal protein called a “prion” that affects deer, elk, and moose. Currently, there is no known treatment or vaccine for it. It’s been dubbed the “zombie deer disease” because it induces physiological and behavioral changes, leading to emaciation and eventual death.

While the CDC says that it’s not known if CWD could spread to humans, a new study suggests that two hunters who ate deer meat infected with CWD ended up testing positive for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, a rare and fatalbrain disorder, and it …