Posted on 04/19/2024 6:44:22 AM PDT by Paul46360
Two hunters may have become the first Americans to die from a 'zombie deer' disease.
Experts have been warning for years that the nearly 100 percent fatal chronic wasting disease (CWD) - which leaves deer confused, drooling, and unafraid of humans - could jump from animals to people.
But a new study theorizes that it has already happened - in two hunters who died in 2022 after eating contaminated venison.
One of the victims, a 72-year-old man, suffered 'rapid-onset confusion and aggression,' as well as seizures. He died within a month.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
State of Washington will test your shot deer for it. But first I think they confiscate likely carcasses, and issue you a fresh deer tag. That’s on vaporous memory ...
“But a new study >theorizes< that it has already happened - in two hunters who died in 2022 after eating contaminated venison.
One of the victims, a 72-year-old man, suffered ‘rapid-onset confusion and aggression,’ as well as seizures. He died within a month.”
Not proven as true, it is speculation.
Millions of people have eaten venison since the initial settlement of North America and survived. Two die from a recently discovered disease and people lose their minds. How many have died from salmonella from eating chicken and other animals over the years? Trichinosis(sp) from pork and so on. The vegans are loving this new development.
Covering up for the vaxx producing prions.
The left are fear monguering in an effort to panic hunters into giv8ng up their right to hunt. 2 deer out of how many harvested? What miniscule % is infected?
Mad cow disease was a much larger threat, yet still only managed to kill only a few people outright.
Another Peta scare mongering attempt
Diseased animals should never be eaten by humans. Unless one wants to become part of the food chain.
I was wrong. Here’s the detail in Washington State:
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/nov/24/washington-sees-uptick-in-samples-for-chronic-wast/
Avian species not likely affected; neither are reptiles, only mammals.
Darn...not the right Hunter.
The Zoonotic Potential of Chronic Wasting Disease—A Review
Zombie deer disease.
SNORT.
There was a cluster of something like CJD in Nova Scotia recently.
Interesting that CWD in deer was first noticed in farmed deer in Colorado in 1967. Did their feed include cattle brains and spinal cord? Did humans do this to ourselves?
Did it really spread across the country in less than 60 years or has it always been here?
Note to the DM: Nice try.
Hmmm... I wonder who owns the patent on this one... (?)
That’s what I don’t get. Our guts break down proteins into peptides and amino acids. Heat denatures proteins, messes up the folding.
Just because a protein is misfolded and wreaks havoc if it gets in the brain doesn’t mean it should be impervious to digestion and heat.
This is a hideous disease. It causes you to become a Dhimmicrat with ‘rapid onset confusion and aggression’ then you die and remain a Dhimmicrat voter forever.
Presumably on autopsy, not course of disease.
Man, this is like way to weird..
"A prion is a type of protein that can trigger normal proteins in the brain to fold abnormally. Prion diseases can affect both humans and animals and are sometimes spread to humans by infected meat products. The most common form of prion disease that affects humans is Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)."
Looks like 30 states have found cases of it. Need a national map showing where and how many cases detected, but really, the odds of getting it from eating a deer infected is still extremely low
Kinda like eating puffer fish- it’s a crap.shoot- just with much lower odds of getting the wasting disease compared to dying from puffer fish
Wash8ngton still doesn’t have any cases that have been detected according to article.
Also interesting that he wasn’t diagnosed with Variant CJD...
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