Ticks found to harbor and release prions of chronic wasting disease By Pooja Toshniwal Paharia, Reviewed by Lily Ramsey, LLM In a recent study published in the Scientific Reports Journal, researchers combined experimental tick feeding with tick evaluations from wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to determine whether ticks may contain transmission-relevant amounts of chronic wasting disease (CWD)-associated read more News-Medical.Net Reports on Recent Tick Study Published in “Scientific Reports” Journal