Series: Bent Out Of Shape

The epidemic among deer, elk and moose has spread around the Mountain West since it was first identified in wild populations in Wyoming in the '80s. It reached wild herds in Montana in 2017, and it was detected for the first time in Idaho last year.

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New Research On Chronic Wasting Disease Reiterates Its Potential To Jump To Other Species

Rae Ellen Bichell

A neurodegenerative illness called chronic wasting disease is spreading among deer and elk in our region. Now, researchers at Colorado State University鈥�

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Bent Out Of Shape, Part 4: The Next Mad Cow Disease?

Rae Ellen Bichell

Michael Osterholm is worried. He directs the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota. He's also serving a鈥�

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Bent Out Of Shape, Part 3: A Complicated Turn Of Events

Rae Ellen Bichell

Researchers first identified chronic wasting disease way back in the 1960s. Soon after, Michael Miller got sucked into working on it."Yeah, sucked into it鈥�

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Bent Out Of Shape, Part 2: An Animal Epidemic Goes Global

Rae Ellen Bichell

The question of where chronic wasting disease came from reopened in the spring of 2016.Roy Andersen was monitoring reindeer in Norway. He鈥檚 a research鈥�

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Bent Out Of Shape, Part 1: A Mysterious Animal Epidemic

Rae Ellen Bichell

Heather Swanson and Ryan Prioreschi monitor wildlife with the City of Boulder. They're standing in knee-high golden grass on a slope where the Rocky鈥�

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Bent Out Of Shape: Could A Mysterious Animal Epidemic Become The Next Mad Cow?

Rae Ellen Bichell

Chronic wasting disease is crippling deer populations in the Mountain West, around the country and in bordering Canadian provinces. It's not a bacterium鈥�

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Series: Bent Out Of Shape

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