> plants that grow over the soil where deer with CWD decompose can transmit the disease to animals that eat them
I've heard this before but the last I tried looking into it I could only find a single study with these findings. Do you know if this was ever replicated? If so, I'd be interested in reading it -- I have to wonder how careful the researchers were to isolate the raw plant material from the contaminated soil, which may have non-plant matter transmitting the prion. Plants transmitting a prion is just hard for me to believe.
It'll probably be a year or two until an attempt at replication is published.
Anyway, the details are all there. It's an open-access paper. (I'm enjoying this new trend where almost everything worth reading is published in open-access journals.)
I've heard this before but the last I tried looking into it I could only find a single study with these findings. Do you know if this was ever replicated? If so, I'd be interested in reading it -- I have to wonder how careful the researchers were to isolate the raw plant material from the contaminated soil, which may have non-plant matter transmitting the prion. Plants transmitting a prion is just hard for me to believe.