Deer Are Beta-Testing a Nightmare Disease – The Atlantic

Read article - Surachai Supattapone, a professor of biochemistry and cell biology and of medicine, is quoted in an article about chronic wasting disease, a highly lethal, highly contagious neurodegenerative disease that is devastating North America’s deer, elk, and other cervids. “This is kind of like a ticking time bomb,” Supattapone said.