Lichens may aid in combating deadly chronic wasting disease in wildlife

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 - 14:30 in Health & Medicine

Certain lichens can break down the infectious proteins responsible for chronic wasting disease (CWD), a troubling neurological disease fatal to wild deer and elk and spreading throughout the United States and Canada.

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