CI Faculty Member Awarded Nearly $1 Million NSF Grant (redOrbit) CAMARILLO, Calif., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- California State University Channel Islands announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently honored Dr. [News Source]

Deer can spread Prion disease (The Malay Mail) PARIS: Brain-destroying prion disease can spread among deer through faeces shed by animals which have been infected by the deadly pathogen but are not sick, a study published yesterday suggested. [News Source]

Study Gives Insight Into Spread of Brain Illness in Animals (New York Times) The infectious agent that leads to chronic wasting disease is spread in the feces of infected animals long before they become ill, a new research says. [News Source]

Study Gives Insight Into Spread of Brain Illness in Animals (New York Times) The infectious agent that leads to chronic wasting disease is spread in the feces of infected animals long before they become ill, a new research says. [News Source]

Healthy deer can spread prion disease through faeces (AFP via Yahoo! News) Brain-destroying prion disease can spread among deer through faeces shed by animals which have been infected by the deadly pathogen but are not sick, a study published on Wednesday suggests. [News Source]

CSU gets $2.5M grant for study of chronic-wasting disease (Denver Business Journal) Colorado State University has received a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the transmission of chronic-wasting disease in wildlife -- research that could help scientists understand how other diseases spread. [News Source]

Death on the wing (The Australian) BATS are to blame for the latest case of a lethal virus jumping from animals to humans. [News Source]

CSUCI professor Blake Gillespie receives science grant (Ventura County Star) A chemistry professor at CSU Channel Islands in Camarillo has received a major grant from the National Science Foundation. [News Source]

State boosts CWD survey (Jackson Hole News & Guide) State researchers are looking harder for chronic wasting disease in northwest Wyoming’s wildlife by adding state and federal agents trained to search for the neurological disorder among animals killed during hunting season... [News Source]