How to Use chronic wasting disease in a Sentence

chronic wasting disease

noun

• State officials reported the presence of deadly chronic wasting disease in two wild California deer earlier this week.
  — Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
• No chronic wasting disease has been detected in Wisconsin's wild elk, according to the DNR.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
• Yellowstone estimates about 10 to 15 percent of mule deer near Cody, Wyoming, which migrate into the park during the summer, have chronic wasting disease.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, chronic wasting disease continues to spread to more states, with the most recent being Indiana.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2024
• The infected deer was killed by a hunter in 2021 and sampled at that time for chronic wasting disease, a type of neurodegenerative disorder that affects deer, elk and moose.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Some big questions remain about the disease's transmission across species though, and there have been a few experimental studies that suggest, at least, that chronic wasting disease is transmissible to primates.
  — Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 22 Apr. 2024
• Scientists believe that chronic wasting disease is caused by misfolded proteins called prions.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Jorge is leading a multiyear study at the University of Georgia on chronic wasting disease, an always-fatal neurological illness.
  — Erika Howsare, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
• Improper deer carcass disposal poses a chronic wasting disease risk to free-roaming cervid populations.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2023
• The department uses the money for a host of fish and wildlife management programs, including stocking game fish, restoring habitats, wardens, monitoring chronic wasting disease and paying farmers’ wolf depredation claims.
  — Todd Richmond, Twin Cities, 24 Jan. 2024
• That regulation was put in place because of concerns surrounding chronic wasting disease, the highly infectious and fatal neurological disease affecting deer, elk, and other cervids.
  — Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 9 May 2023
• The hunting community is experiencing whiplash after several articles appeared on mainstream news sites this week announcing that two hunters have died after eating venison from deer with chronic wasting disease.
  — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 18 Apr. 2024
• Michigan has two ongoing diseases persisting in its deer herd: bovine tuberculosis in the northeastern Lower Peninsula, and chronic wasting disease throughout south-central Michigan.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 30 Oct. 2022
• According to the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, chronic wasting disease was detected in two deer after samples were examined Monday, marking the first time the fatal disease has been found in deer or elk in the state.
  — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 May 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024