CWD article

[sojourner]

Spreading wildlife disease threatens deer, elk — and maybe humans, new research says

It was first found in Canada in 1996. Since then, it has appeared in deer and elk in Saskatchewan, Alberta and Quebec. A new study says chronic wasting disease…

nationalpost.com

Wow

 

[Weldabeast]

First we find out u can't eat bats, now deer, next we'll find out this manatee meat causes erectile disfunction and panda loins cause bells palsy....

 

[Fuse Dude]

I wonder if this effects canine...

 

[weekender21]

Interesting article. Not good news.


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[sweats]

Bummer. I wonder if someday there will be some kind of test kit you could use in the field to know if your deer is infected.

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[Dewey]

We’ve been dealing with CWD in WI for 20 years now and have yet to hear of a hunter getting a brain disease that was connected to eating infected venison. Not saying it can’t happen but there’s just no hard data to prove it ever jumped to humans. I know plenty of people who ate what they found later to be cwd positive and had no ill affects.

Sure something can pop up later but after 20 years that seems less and less likely. Back in 1998 our group shot 4 mule deer in NW Nebraska and ate them all. The next year that area was found to have an excessively high cwd infection rate. I can almost guarantee at least one of us ate an infected deer. I guess what I’m trying to say is until the data says otherwise I’m not too concerned about it.

Just be smart and debone, remove all lymph nodes and don’t cut into the brain with the same tools you use to cut meat. If your area tests for CWD it’s probably a good idea to wait for results but honestly I wouldn’t even be worried but that’s just me.

 

[gumby]

Bummer. I wonder if someday there will be some kind of test kit you could use in the field to know if your deer is infected.

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Here in Alabama, you can have your deer head tested for free and they set up freezer drop offs to make it easy. Last season there were 195,140 deer reported on game check and only 550 turned in for testing,.

 

[sweats]

Here in Alabama, you can have your deer head tested for free and they set up freezer drop offs to make it easy. Last season there were 195,140 deer reported on game check and only 550 turned in for testing,.

How long does it take to get results back?

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[Weldabeast]

Some of the public around has jaw bone collection. Just a little basket by the gambrel u leave a lower jaw bone for the biologist to collect and test later. Only certain wma have it and I don't know how or why 1 has it and another wont

 

[weekender21]

Bummer. I wonder if someday there will be some kind of test kit you could use in the field to know if your deer is infected.

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Not until the federal government starts funding the research. Stuff like that is expensive.


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[weekender21]

Here in Alabama, you can have your deer head tested for free and they set up freezer drop offs to make it easy. Last season there were 195,140 deer reported on game check and only 550 turned in for testing,.

In every county or just CWD “hot zones”?


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[gumby]

How long does it take to get results back?

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1-3 weeks

 

[gumby]

In every county or just CWD “hot zones”?


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covers most of state, seems to be more drops in north and west boundaries of state. There are no positives tested cases in Bama.

 

[sweats]

1-3 weeks

That's not too bad, but most would have had to process their deer by then. Unless you're OK with taking the chance, which some are, I think the only thing that would work for most would be something you could use yourself and get results in a couple hours.

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[Weldabeast]

Isn't in Florida either

 

[MNFarmHunter]

As with all things, it depends. We know prions attack the CNS, cannot be destroyed through most cooking methods and it has to be assumed that rogue prions travel elsewhere through the body but the report is glaringly void of critical information.
1. How much infected animal meat was fed to the monkeys and for what duration
2. What muscle groups were fed and how was it processed (common knife, cooked or raw, etc)
3. What does "low level infection" even mean? Were the prions merely detected or were there physical damages to the CNS

Not saying the report isn't concerning but there's alot of information missing before I'd say there is a concern.

 

[kyler1945]

As with all things, it depends. We know prions attack the CNS, cannot be destroyed through most cooking methods and it has to be assumed that rogue prions travel elsewhere through the body but the report is glaringly void of critical information.
1. How much infected animal meat was fed to the monkeys and for what duration
2. What muscle groups were fed and how was it processed (common knife, cooked or raw, etc)
3. What does "low level infection" even mean? Were the prions merely detected or were there physical damages to the CNS

Not saying the report isn't concerning but there's alot of information missing before I'd say there is a concern.

Agree.

I'd also add that we shouldn't be so sure the whole country isn't suffering from brain damage anyway, given our schizophrenic behavior over the last decade. Haha it would be hard to prove we are losing our minds when we can't find them to make the point.