{"id":87896,"date":"2019-02-18T13:22:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/first-successful-cwd-vaccine-tested-in-deer"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:22:48","slug":"first-successful-cwd-vaccine-tested-in-deer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/first-successful-cwd-vaccine-tested-in-deer","title":{"rendered":"First successful CWD vaccine tested in deer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-successful-cwd-vaccine-tested-in-deer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The first successful vaccination of deer against chronic wasting disease is reported in the journal Vaccine, (<em>Vaccine<\/em> 2015;38:726\u201333), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0264410X14015746\" target=\"_blank\">posted online<\/a> in advance of print Dec. 21, 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/first-successful-cwd-vaccine-tested-in-deer.jpg\" alt=\"\">Researchers say the breakthrough may not only protect U.S. livestock against CWD but may also shed new light on human diseases suspected of being caused by prion infections, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, familial insomnia, and variably protease-sensitive prionopathy. Some studies also have associated prionlike infections with Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have found that preventing prion infection is possible in animals, it\u2019s likely feasible in humans as well,\u201d said senior study investigator and neurologist Thomas Wisniewski, MD, a professor at New York University\u2019s Langone Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avma.org\/News\/JAVMANews\/Pages\/150215p.aspx\">https:\/\/www.avma.org\/News\/JAVMANews\/Pages\/150215p.aspx<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 The first successful vaccination of deer against chronic wasting disease is reported in the journal Vaccine, (Vaccine 2015;38:726\u201333), posted online in advance of print Dec. 21, 2014. Researchers say the breakthrough may not only protect U.S. livestock against CWD but may also shed new light on human diseases suspected of being caused by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}