This is Chronic Wasting Disease

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was diagnosed in March 2016 in a wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) from the Nordfjella mountain area in Norway. This was the first documented case of CWD in Europe.

[WobblesandBean]

It's horrifying that our own biochemistry can turn against us so easily.

[yerman]

The lack of voiceovers in this makes it terrifyingly ominous.

[mickilarry]

This sounds like an end of the world scenario

[campbellsmith]

one of the scariest moments of my life was seeing a deer walk out of the woods across from where i was swimming and drown itself in the water. the poor animal was stumbling and barely lucid. it was very sad, but we were more scared than anything, so we left quickly. cwd is a terrifying disease

[zebrahunter]

Good news everyone! Fallow Deer have been shown to be resistant to CWD, meaning after some research, we might be able to make all deer resistant!

[crypticore]

something about this is so.. disturbing. the music, the animation, the dark theme, all of it mixed together gives it an awfully eerie tone

[jonburak]

Humans are so screwed if this jumps species

[AAAAAAHHHHHHHH]

This makes me feel like I’m living in a post apocalyptic world and I’m watching a video made many years ago about the disease before it spread to humans.

[jello-anthem]

Reminds me of what my biology teacher always says about proteins, "You change the shape, you change the function!"
Any protein, doesn't matter what, change the shape even the slightest bit and now it's unusable for its original intent

Edit on February 27th, 2023: Seems this video appeared in the algorithm again. This was senior year biology, we only covered so much about proteins, this is more a rule of thumb that changing the protein shape makes it unusable

[RPDtherd]

The scary part of this is how resistant the prions are. They can survive temperatures of -100°f-2000°f.

[VANITREE]

As someone that lives in a heavily wooded area, I've been warned most of my life of CWD. Always scared the life out of me. I hope I never have to see an animal suffering with it.

[D_kiki]

Doesn't transmit to human but there's a human version of CWD called Parkinson which involves the misfoldings of prions as well

[zdrakdvah]

i feel like, everyone was going into a state of panic until the end card of "this doesnt seem to affect humans"

[zoeoakes]

this probably could have been avoided if Norway weren't so bent on annihilating the wolf population.

[yoshisarethebomb]

For some information: There are prion diseases in humans, but they’re mostly genetic or very rare. As long as you aren’t a cannibal, you should be fine

Edit; Sorry for not enough information. Please do your own research, I’m not a doctor or scientist!!

[WCfanatic]

Thanks Youtube, I really needed to be reminded that Prion diseases are literally the most terrifying of all illnesses

[ThatHawksSimp]

YouTube: hey, wanna watch a cartoon reindeer die a slow, painful death?

[stardra]

I learned about this after doing some research on prions when I played Plague Inc. a lot. It’s genuinely depressing to hear about this disease and somewhat terrifying to imagine what those poor animals are going through :[

[thehickerwolfie]

This was already sad as hell but the music.. oh dear god. The ambient, sorrowful tune is the most brilliant and sadistic way to make you feel the pain of a bunch of pixels. And knowing recent times, billions of real deer too, which is easier to explain when someone asks why you’re teary-eyed.

[amethyst]

WHY DID I THINK CLICKING THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA