In this inaugural blog from our flagship organization journal, the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD)’s Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation, I am choosing to highlight chronic wasting disease (CWD), an infectious prion disease affecting cervids that has a big impact on big-game and deer farmers. CWD is the same group of fatal diseases as mad cow disease in cattle and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans.

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