SFC B
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It was CJD. The onset and his death were quick and wholly disturbing.
Primates developed CWD after consuming CWD infected cervid meat
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It was CJD. The onset and his death were quick and wholly disturbing.
Any prion desease can have a quick onset after exposure or take years to incubate before showing signs. I'm a large animal veterinarian in Oklahoma. You all are right about there being a serious lack of knowledge about the zoonotic capabilities of these diseases. They are very well understood within their respective species, scrapie in sheep, BSE in cattle, CWD in cervids, etc. A couple of things we do know
however are that repeated exposure, consumption of infected neural tissue, increases the chances of transmission or speed the onset of disease, you can inject prions from one mammal into the CSF fluid of any other mammal and cause disease.That does not prove transmission is possible through consumption of infected tissue, but it does prove that prions are zoonotic. There is a theory that Parkinson's may be related to CJD. I would recommend to never eat brain or spinal chord from anything and take care to not introduce brain, spinal chord, or CSF fluid into your meat during processing.
however are that repeated exposure, consumption of infected neural tissue, increases the chances of transmission or speed the onset of disease, you can inject prions from one mammal into the CSF fluid of any other mammal and cause disease.That does not prove transmission is possible through consumption of infected tissue, but it does prove that prions are zoonotic. There is a theory that Parkinson's may be related to CJD. I would recommend to never eat brain or spinal chord from anything and take care to not introduce brain, spinal chord, or CSF fluid into your meat during processing.
shootbrownelk
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There aren't many areas in Wyoming that aren't CWD infected, and it's getting more and more widespread every year.
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I certainly would not go as far as to say humans could not contract CWD but living, hunting, and working with deer in my home state of West Virginia, where CWD is apparently very prevalent, it must be pretty tuff to get.
Deer harvested are regularly tested and the test results aren't given to the hunter that took the deer. These deer ,infected or not, then are consumed by the hunter and their families with no knowledge of a single case of a person contracting it.
After years of this going on in supposedly CWD ground zero areas in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia where thousands of deer are taken each year, you would think someone would have gotten it or at least contracted a variation of the disease.
Maybe us West Virginia people are just a little more imune than the rest of the country to little things like diseases.
Deer harvested are regularly tested and the test results aren't given to the hunter that took the deer. These deer ,infected or not, then are consumed by the hunter and their families with no knowledge of a single case of a person contracting it.
After years of this going on in supposedly CWD ground zero areas in the Eastern panhandle of West Virginia where thousands of deer are taken each year, you would think someone would have gotten it or at least contracted a variation of the disease.
Maybe us West Virginia people are just a little more imune than the rest of the country to little things like diseases.
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I quoted wytex, but noted that several people here are working with the old belief that meat from a cwd positive animal is considered to be a low risk material.
It is NOT. The meat is now considered to be as potentially dangerous as any other part of the animal.
The ONLY way to prevent consuming CWD is to eat animals that do NOT have the disease.
If you hunt in a known CWD area, have your animal tested before consuming it!
Potential CWD transfer to humans by consuming wild meat is unfortunately only the blunt tip of the iceberg now.
CWD has now been shown to be up-taken by plants from the soil, being found in all parts of the plant including the seeds.
Corn, wheat, legumes, hay, can all become CWD positive.
What happens when international agencies ban the importation of these crops from CWD areas?
There are several research projects into possible historical and future human deaths from CWD.
This will take more time to develop a clearer picture of whether CWD is already killing people.
If several or all of the conceived issues relating to CWD come to being correct, this disease will dramatically change wildlife management and hunting as we know it.
This link has some additional info on current CWD concerns.
http://apwildlife.org/publications/
Katqanna, contact Darrel Rowledge from the Alliance for Public Wildlife if you would like help in sources the information.
My wife and I were just talking about this last night. Her family has cabin property in eastern Wyoming where CWD is pretty bad. Both her grandfather, uncle and now my father in-law have all been diagnosed with Parkinson's.
On a side note, if you can not "clean" the prions off of knives or butchering equipment, think about all the butchers that could have "tainted" equipment and wouldn't the practice removing a trophy (head or skull cap) taint your hunting knife? Maybe I need to rethink the need to go with disposable blade knife.
Also, I read the same article first quoted in this thread off of Facebook last week. After reading the article I decided to read the comments to see if I could learn anything. It was scary to read some people's opinions. The number of people that think CWD is a conspiracy to keep people from hunting and spending time in the woods is amazing.
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katqanna
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Walking Buffalo, thanks. As soon as I get the worst of this move taken care of in the next 2 weeks, then I will take a look at the site and contact Rowledge.
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I'll pm his email. Darrel is Canada's leading CWD Policy advocate. He will outtalk you.
Following is the first summary of this new finding to be released.
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Yea that is fairly prevalent in my state. We had a group of organizations come together to form recommendations for CWD management. Basically it was pointless because our legislature and governor have basically ignored these recommendations. Anyways, the guy who heads Whitetails of Wisconsin, a group that represents game farms, stated that CWD has not killed one single deer in Wisconsin. Talk about a scary lack of knowledge
In recent years we have started genetic testing domestic sheep for scrapie susceptibility. Domestic sheep are being bred for resistance to scrapie. It is likely that there is a similar genetic susceptibility/resistance in other species as well, cattle, deer, humans, etc. This could be part of the reason CJD may or may not show up in CWD areas. There are different "strains" of the disease in different areas and I believe that it is highly likely that we share the same genetic resistance or susceptibility to prion diseases.
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