Re:Deers? (Score 1)

Yes, we should pay attention to this. If this is related to mad cow disease/kuru/Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease, then the infectious agent is a prion. Commonly used sterilization techniques don't work. these diseases are nasty, progressive until fatal, and have no real treatment.
prion
n : (microbiology) an infectious protein particle similar to a virus but lacking nucleic acid; thought to be the agent responsible for scrapie and other degenerative diseases of the nervous system