Some deer have been infected with a disease that makes them look like zombies! Is humanity’s downfall approaching us? Well, don’t worry. It is not as scary as it seems. While the disease that the deer have can spread to humans, it will most likely be a repeat with what happened with the mad cow disease. But what exactly is this disease that these deer have?

Well, the disease is actually scientifically called chronic wasting disease, and it is affecting deer that roam freely in the wild. The CDC, also known as Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, has said that the disease has been spotted in at least 24 states in the United States, and two provinces in our northern neighbor, Canada. The disease also has no known cure as of writing this and has no way to stop or prevent the disease.

The disease makes deer take on a zombie-like an appearance, which is why it is given the nickname “ zombie deer disease “. The deer’s skin decays and their brain rots, making them not afraid of anything and very aggressive towards any predators it may come across. The disease also makes them have warts, some very large and some small. Overall, the disease, it just makes them look really ugly.

 The disease takes a similar take on the mad cow disease, which slowly destroyed the spinal cord and the brain of cattle, and like the zombie deer disease, it can spread to humans. The mad cow disease had an outbreak in the 80s and 90s and is hardly a problem anymore. Hopefully the zombie deer disease is just a repeat of the mad cow disease, and it won’t be the cause of humanity’s extinction.

 Multiple videos of these zombie deer have appeared online, and one of these videos, by Youtube user “Tim Wells Bow Hunter” shows him and his acquaintances firing a bow at one of these deer and the arrow can be seen completely going through the deer, and yet the deer still run away like it was not shot at all.