Deadly ?zombie? deer disease could possibly spread to humans, experts warn

[BushMasterBoy]

It looked like a battle ground. Dead deer everywhere, just rotting. Not even any raptors were seen. It was CWD. I don't know the vector, which is the method it is spread. Report below says prions can be found in deer saliva. There will not be any serious research done until this affects livestock. Remember a virus mutates every transmission, in other words it uses your DNA to replicate. I find virology fascinating. I would heed the warning seriously.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease

[Justin]

It looked like a battle ground. Dead deer everywhere, just rotting. Not even any raptors were seen. It was CWD. I don't know the vector, which is the method it is spread. Report below says prions can be found in deer saliva. There will not be any serious research done until this affects livestock. Remember a virus mutates every transmission, in other words it uses your DNA to replicate. I find virology fascinating. I would heed the warning seriously.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...th_America.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease

Not that I'm an expert, but my understanding is that stuff like CWD and Mad Cow don't even rise to the level of complexity of a virus. They're mis-folded proteins that manage to propagate through an animal, eventually killing it.

[def90]

It looked like a battle ground. Dead deer everywhere, just rotting. Not even any raptors were seen. It was CWD. I don't know the vector, which is the method it is spread. Report below says prions can be found in deer saliva. There will not be any serious research done until this affects livestock. Remember a virus mutates every transmission, in other words it uses your DNA to replicate. I find virology fascinating. I would heed the warning seriously.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...th_America.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease

That wouldn’t be CWD..

Steve Rinella had a good podcast about CWD.. basically if you dont eat the brains or spinal material the odds of it transferring are slim if it is able to at all.

If you harvest the neck meat they recommend that you remove the meat from the spine/bones, many people take the whole neck and roast it on the bone, dont do that and you should be fine.

Wisconsin had a massive over population of deer and they made an attempt at wiping out the disease by basically opening up the deer season and giving out unlimited tags. If CWD was transferrable it probably would have happened already with the number of infected deer out there.

There is also a “theory” out there that CWD has always been around and its just a matter of us recently discovering it and now of course as we increase testing we will also see an increase in positive tests.