Quote Originally Posted by BushMasterBoy View Post
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.