
Scott Knapper
Dr. Scott Napper, Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Saskatchewan and Senior Research Scientist at VIDO, developing prion (CWD) vaccines.
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Sep 18, 2026
3 Reasons CWD Is Spreading Faster Than Hunters Realize
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Logan LewisHOST
that it's newer what are how i guess you've been working on it for two decades you said so but that's still i would say newer in the form of biology right so kind of how new is it and where where did this start or do we think that it started

Scott KnapperGUEST
So where we first came to appreciation of what prion diseases were, it was at the end of World War II that New Guinea got divided in half and the Eastern half went to the Australians.

Scott KnapperGUEST
And the Australians started to send in all of their people to investigate what was going on there.

Scott KnapperGUEST
And they started to come back with reports of this strange disease called Kuru, which in the local language translated to trembling with fear.
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Logan LewisHOST
And are you able to kind of talk about what that method is right now? Or is that kind of under wraps?