Terrifying 'zombie deer disease' reaches 33rd US state... as two hunters die ... trends now
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A deadly 'zombie deer disease' is continuing to spread across America and has now been detected in Indiana - making it present in 33 states.
The Indiana Department of Natural Resources confirmed that the chronic wasting disease (CWD) - which is thought to jump from deer to humans - has been detected in an Indiana white-tailed deer for the first time.
It comes weeks after it was revealed two deer hunters were found to have died from a condition they possibly contracted from eating infected deer meat.
Chronic wasting disease, or CWD, is a contagious neurological condition that kills virtually every animal it infects. It's been nicknamed 'zombie deer disease' because it causes parts of the brain to slowly deteriorate to a spongy consistency and causes behavioral changes, starvation and eventually death.
It is quickly spreading among states throughout the southern, midwestern and northeastern US, raising experts' concerns about a possible human spillover.
At least 33 states in America and parts of Canada have seen reports of a virus dubbed 'zombie deer disease' that could potentially spread to humans
The CDC has said there have been no reported cases of CWD infection in people, but some animal studies suggest the infection poses a risk to some types of non-human primates, such as monkeys, that eat meat from CWD-infect animals.
However, researchers from Texas believe they discovered two cases of a similar neurological condition in hunters who ate deer meat that they contracted because the deer
