[wgmalabama]

My wife and I were discussing the proper techniques of butchering deer since it's hunting season. Even if deer CWD is not currently a known issue in alabama it's important to know the risks.

Prion diseases are of a special interest to me since the seem like the perfect stealth bio weapon in my opinion. Came across this article and thought I would post it. There are many making links between Alzheimer's, dementia, cronic wasting disease and mad cow being tied to a variety of prion diseases. I'm interested in the science aspects and there are many here with research / PhD level knowledge. Please post any thoughts or theory's on this area.

[Paladin2]

Can’t Congress just pass a law against Prions?

[MNDude]

that probably explains why you never see a zombie with that disease.

[cripplecreek]

the perfect stealth bio weapon

I don't know how hard it would be to produce in quantity but it would definitely be bad. It wouldn't show up for years and its incurable.

we would become a nation of vegetarians.

[ETL]

[dp0622]

I’m interested in how eating brains stopped dementia.

I fear that my well publicized head injury will cause early dementia or alzhiemers.

I already search for words alot more than I did before.

Plus I hope science rock and rolls for the troops with head injuries.

[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.

[Cubs Fan]

Don’t try to eat a liberals brain. You’ll starve.

[onedoug]

Cannibalism and primitivism go hand in hand.

[o_1_2_3__]

The left is about to get behind cannibalism?

[Gay State Conservative]

Every time I donate platelets at a nearby pediatric hospital they ask me if I've ever had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.That's a disease that the people mentioned here contract from eating the brains or spinal columns of the dead.Saw a documentary on it many years ago.

[norwaypinesavage]

Creutzfeld Jacob Disease (CJD) is a "spontaneous" form of the disease that strikes about one in a million people per year. It's about 250 per year in the US. It is believed to take many decades to progress after exp0osure, and so it mostly strikes people after age 50. the "Mad Cow " variant of the disease, believed to be caused by eating beef from diseased cattle, struck much younger people, so it somehow progressed more rapidly in them. My brother in law died of CJD around the time that mad cow disease was happening in Europe.

These plus CWD and kuru, and others are believed to be caused by the same type of prion, a malformed protein, that somehow manages to replicate itself without the benefit of DNA. The lengthy incubation period would make the use of this as a weapon quite difficult.

[Safetgiver]

The Fore people,.....had a long-standing tradition of mortuary feasts — eating the dead............Uhhh, who got the Fore skin?

[To Hell With Poverty]

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