26 June 2017 / The New York Times / Carl Zimmer
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Fire May Be the Only Remedy for a Plague Killing Deer and Elk

Rocky Mountains, United States

Across a growing swath of North America, these animals are dying from a mysterious disorder called chronic wasting disease. It’s caused not by a virus or bacterium, but a deformed protein called a prion.


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A deer with chronic wasting disease. (By Terry Kreeger, Wildlife Diseases Ecology