Posted on 12/17/2022 1:11:33 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
During Missouri’s rifle-hunting season, state conservation officials in more than two dozen locations spend 12 hours a day removing and testing lymph nodes from the heads of deer carcasses brought in by hunters. They are looking for chronic wasting disease, a deadly and incurable condition on the rise across the country.
“It’s a growing problem,” said Erin Shank, a biologist at the Missouri Department of Conservation. “It’s going one direction and it’s not the direction we want it to go.”
The disease was first found in a captive deer in Colorado in the 1960s and in wild deer in the 1980s. But in the 2000s the disease began to spread faster. It has been detected in 29 states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some states, including Colorado, are now finding more than 5% of herds infected in some areas, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. Above that 5% threshold, infection rates begin to rise exponentially and populations stagnate or decline.
Chronic wasting disease, known as CWD, is a neurological condition akin to mad-cow disease or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease found in humans. With these diseases, pathogens called prions lead to brain damage and death. The prions can take years to cause symptoms—which include weight loss, lack of coordination, drooling and lack of fear of humans—and then cause certain death. Scientists haven’t been able to fully research and understand how prions work or a way to cure them, according to the CDC.
Scientists said they know of no case of the disease being transmitted to humans through tainted venison or other means. But studies showing its risks to nonhuman primates raise concerns, according to the CDC.
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This happens every year during Deer season.
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“ Scientists said they know of no case of the disease being transmitted to humans through tainted venison or other means. But studies showing its risks to nonhuman primates raise concerns, according to the CDC”
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Not being transmitted to humans? This CALLS FOR GAIN-OF-FUNCTION RESEARCH!
Paging Dr Fauci!
Chronic Wasting Disease... Sounds like something Biden and liberals have.
The Whitetail deer population in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota has been devastated by hronic wasting disease. I was at a gun club meeting last night where hunters were displaying their trophies, and there were a lot of great elk trophies, but only a few deer. There were at least 8 to 10 elk that were in the 325+ point range for their antlers. I wasn’t here when Wyoming went through 2+ years of drought but this year we got a lot of moisture and the grass was tall and green until late August and the elk just grew large and fat with the bulls growing massive racks.
Maybe we can end car wrecks with deer forever if we implement a deer vaccination campaign
To many mule deer have this to make hunting for meat worth your while. KS venison is off the table for now.
It’s a Mad Cow prion type thing.
Another judgment from on High?
And here I thought the article was a deer Abby addressing the vaccinated.
A university in Colorado released it into the Colorado deer decades ago.
Prion disease is deadly and scary as all hell.
“Compared to other pathogenic agents, prions are incredibly resistant to most routine methods of decontamination and sterilization. According to an article published in the Clinical Infectious Diseases journal, no single method of decontamination or sterilization has been shown to be 100% effective against prions.”
In nature, it might be said that prions do not denature, but remain in the environment until physically removed.
The only deer abbey I know of is in turkey.
FEDS moved deer from INFECTED areas to UNINFECTED AREAS.
The deer just need the mask up for 2 weeks and stay away from other deer
Too many of them here in pa. Hit two of them in last year, just missed another yesterday. Wreak havoc on farmers crops and my orhard. I hope this disease culls the herd here.
Just a few in MN
Man, I misspelled everything!
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