David A. Osborn

TL;DR: This paper found infectious prions capable of transmitting chronic wasting disease (CWD) in saliva (by the oral route) and in blood (by transfusion) from CWD-positive deer.

TL;DR: It is shown that blood and saliva of pre-symptomatic deer contain infectious prions capable of infecting naïve deer and that naïve deer exposed only to environmental fomites from the suites of CWD-infected deer acquired CWD infection after a period of 15 months post initial exposure.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the behavioral responses of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) to four colors of wildlife warning reflectors (red, white, blue green, and amber) that are purported to reduce the incidence of deer-vehicle collisions.

TL;DR: Results indicate that CWD blood infectivity is cell associated and suggest a significant role for B cells and platelets in trafficking CWD infectivity in vivo and support earlier tissue-based studies associating putative follicular B cells with PrPCWD.

TL;DR: Aerosol transmission of CWD to deer with a prion dose >20-fold lower than that used in previous oral inoculations is demonstrated to address the question in the native cervid host.