[Straight Vermonter]

The latency period for this disease may be very long. Some think more than 60 years.

So even if no animals are sick it could still be a present in the animals.

[wgmalabama]

I have read that BSE/CJD has killed in months. Some forms may be slow yet others were very quick. There might be some fast acting proteins that can’t be sterilized, can be uptake into plants, live in hospitals ....

Odd little thing. It’s not even a living organism like a virus.