Everyone old enough will remember the footage of confused ataxic cows that were not able to stand on their own anymore. The 1990s were the time of Mad Cow Disease, an illness caused by a misfolded protein, the prion. While mad cow disease in Europe is well under control by now, a similar illness is currently spreading in the US. Not in cows this time but in deer. What it does to deer and how it has the potential to effect humans, we will chat about with our guest Heather Inzalaco.

Heather is a PhD candidate in wildlife diseases at the University of Wisconsin Madison and thinks outside the box to identify hidden ways of how the disease is spread.

Listen in to Cat’s and Heather’s chat about all things chronic wasting disease.