Perhaps. I noticed human brain wasting disease, otherwise known as mad cow, otherwise known as Jacob-Krutsfeld disease, has infected the deer population. If you eat venison, you are susceptible. The Walking Dead and a few other like zombie shows came out around the time infected cattle were found in the US from the UK.
A few years ago there were several instances of men going crazy,getting naked, jumping into swimming pools to cool off, then attacking and eating peoples faces, the most recent incident was in Florida. They tried to say these guys were under the influence of Flakka, or other drugs, but no drugs were found in their systems.
Knowing the symptoms of JK /mad cow, I believe these people were victims of this disease. Since it has a long incubation period it could be 20 years after eating tainted meat to begin to exhibit symptoms.
Now its in the deer so many rural people are at danger. By the way, the original disease came from cannibals on South Sea islands, it just doesn't pay to eat your own.