Blacklegged ticks or deer ticks are widely known to transmit Lyme disease, and now researchers have found that they may also be a pathway for spreading chronic wasting disease.

Those are the findings of a study led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison that were recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Scientific Reports. The study examined whether ticks could carry an infectious dose of the deadly deer disease.

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