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The “zombie virus” theory crops up days after researchers revived a number of "zombie viruses" from Siberian permafrost, including one thought to be nearly 50,000 years old. The amoeba virus ...

Chronic Wasting is a neurological disease that affects members of the deer family including elk and moose. It’s caused not by a bacteria or virus but by prions, a type of abnormally folded ...