Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD); Maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob (MCJ)

The spread of Chronic Wasting Disease

https://cjdfoundation.org/congressional-requests

I fear during the Great Tribulation there will be severe worldwide outbreaks of diseases and plagues. 

Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
Most recently, emerging laboratory data show that Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) of deer and elk could potentially transmit to humans and other mammals, posing a new threat to public health. Human surveillance through brain tissue examination is the only way to definitely diagnose human prion diseases, determine their origin, and determine whether the spread of CWD found in elk and deer in 24 states in the U.S. and in 2 Canadian provinces has become a human risk.

 A study in progress has shown that CWD was transmitted to macaques (primates that are genetically similar to humans) by feeding them contaminated deer meat.   Unlike the BSE outbreak in cattle, CWD prions are highly infectious and the disease transmits by contact and through contaminated environment, including soil and plants. Additionally, multiple lines of experimental evidence indicate that sheep and cows are susceptible to CWD. Since CWD has been proven to cross the species barriers, this opens up the possibility of oral transmission to humans as well, either directly by eating contaminated venison or indirectly through infected domestic animals.  Continued prion disease surveillance, particularly through examination of human brain tissue, will be imperative to evaluate whether CWD has or can spread to humans.