Zombie Watch

[ramonmercado]

Only Max or wolves will save us.

Chronic Wasting Disease, popularized as "Zombie Deer Disease", leaves the animals drooling, lethargic and ultimately dead. It's caused by prions–misfolding and replicating proteins that turn brains into sponges-and like Mad Cow Disease before it, it may spread to humans.

In the US and Canada, CWD has gained attention not only because it affects big-game animals but also because of the possibility that it could jump the species barrier. Deer, elk and moose could infect livestock, other mammals, birds or even humans. Epidemiologists say the absence of a "spillover" case yet does not mean it will not happen. CWD is one of a cluster of fatal neurological disorders that includes BSE.
"The BSE [mad cow] outbreak in Britain provided an example of how, overnight, things can get crazy when a spillover event happens from, say, livestock to people," Anderson says. "We're talking about the potential of something similar occurring. No one is saying that it's definitely going to happen, but it's important for people to be prepared."

Wolves are our friends. They apparently will identify and kill animals suffering from it without spreading the disease.

https://boingboing.net/2023/12/25/zombie-deer-disease-may-spread-to-humans-scientists-warn.html

 

[Swifty]

Only Max or wolves will save us.

Chronic Wasting Disease, popularized as "Zombie Deer Disease", leaves the animals drooling, lethargic and ultimately dead. It's caused by prions–misfolding and replicating proteins that turn brains into sponges-and like Mad Cow Disease before it, it may spread to humans.



Wolves are our friends. They apparently will identify and kill animals suffering from it without spreading the disease.

https://boingboing.net/2023/12/25/zombie-deer-disease-may-spread-to-humans-scientists-warn.html

 

[ramonmercado]

Not ti be mistaken for the more user friendly US Kush drug.

Deadly 'Zombie Drug' Believed to Contain Human Bones Wreaks Havoc in West Africa​

A new drug called kush is wreaking havoc in west Africa, particularly in Sierra Leone where it is estimated to kill around a dozen people each week and hospitalise thousands.

The drug, taken mostly by men aged 18 to 25, causes people to fall asleep while walking, to fall over, to bang their heads against hard surfaces and to walk into moving traffic.

Kush should not be confused with the drug of the same name found in the US, which is a mixture of "an ever-changing host of chemicals" sprayed on plant matter and smoked.

Kush in Sierra Leone is quite different; it is a mixture of cannabis, fentanyl, tramadol, formaldehyde and – according to some – ground down human bones.

It is mixed by local criminal gangs, but the constituent drugs have international sources, facilitated no doubt by the internet and digital communications.

https://www.sciencealert.com/deadly...ntain-human-bones-wreaks-havoc-in-west-africa