A New York hunter died of a rare brain disorder he may have caught after eating squirrel brains, according to a new report.

The 61-year-old was brought to Rochester Regional Health hospital in 2015 saying he was having trouble thinking clearly, was losing touch with reality and could no longer walk on his own, researchers said in an Oct. 4 report on on the case, according to Live Science.

Based on an MRI, the unnamed man seemed to have a variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, a degenerative and fatal brain disorder that is commonly…