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Scientists Fear 100% Fatal ‘Zombie Deer Disease’ Will Mutate to Infect Humans: ‘There Are no Contingency Plans’
New York Post ^ | Feb. 20, 2024 | Andrew Court

Posted on 02/21/2024 3:10:19 PM PST by nickcarraway

Scientists are sounding the alarm over the spread of “zombie deer disease” amid fears it may evolve to infect humans.

Late last year, experts confirmed Yellowstone National Park’s first case of the infection — officially known as chronic wasting disease — after a deer carcass found in the Wyoming area of the park tested positive for the highly contagious disease. Now, cases have been reported in deer, elk and moose in 33 states across the US, as well as in Canada, Norway and South Korea.

The disease “damages portions of the brain and typically causes progressive loss of body condition, behavioral changes, excessive salivation and death,” according to the New York State Department of Health. It is 100% fatal, and there are no treatments or vaccines.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Outdoors; Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; brain; cwd; deer; elk; gainoffunction; madcowdisease; moose; prion; zombiedeer; zombiedeerdisease
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To: nickcarraway

Oh...sheesh...what next.


21 posted on 02/21/2024 3:24:07 PM PST by goodnesswins ( We pretend to vote and they pretend to count the votes.)
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To: DouglasKC

Test subjects because of hunting, and especially the popularity of deer hunting. If it’s “American,” consider it something the enemy wants to attack. My bible says if he come in one way, he has to flee in seven, so ‘chin up.’


22 posted on 02/21/2024 3:24:29 PM PST by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: nickcarraway

No contingency plans? Are they kidding? I have cases of contingency plans in several different calibers. Zombie apocalypse, baby. Bring it on!


23 posted on 02/21/2024 3:24:39 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: nickcarraway

They’re probably spending millions with the Chinese to make it happen


24 posted on 02/21/2024 3:25:01 PM PST by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Tench_Coxe

I am soooooo screwed!


25 posted on 02/21/2024 3:25:22 PM PST by DariusBane (Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
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To: nickcarraway

Prion based diseases are 100% fatal.
Improper folding of proteins.
Crutzfeld-Jacob disease, etc.


26 posted on 02/21/2024 3:26:35 PM PST by EEGator
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To: nickcarraway

Good grief.

Steer clear of CNS tissue, etc and your will be fine.


27 posted on 02/21/2024 3:28:47 PM PST by Fury
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To: EEGator

Don’t sugar coat it. We can take it. Give it to us straight. Is this stuff bad or what?


28 posted on 02/21/2024 3:29:39 PM PST by BipolarBob (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: BipolarBob

Just take some Tussin’ and you’ll be fine.


29 posted on 02/21/2024 3:31:11 PM PST by EEGator
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To: MattMusson

But how do deer catch it? They don’t eat flesh, and no one is feeding them pellets made of other deer (as happened to cattle kept in feedlots.)


30 posted on 02/21/2024 3:31:31 PM PST by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: nickcarraway

Meh. Live is short. And the Lord is in control.


31 posted on 02/21/2024 3:36:48 PM PST by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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To: nickcarraway

I’m sure the experts in Wuhan will get right on that.


32 posted on 02/21/2024 3:38:02 PM PST by Stosh
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To: BlackVeil

Deer will eat birds and other small animals under certain conditions.


33 posted on 02/21/2024 3:38:36 PM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Tench_Coxe

“Zuckerberg, Oprah, and Gates will be safe in their Hawaiian fortresses.”
Until their hired thugs decide they’re no longer useful.”

Coincidence that there is more than on billionaire developing humanoid robots and the AI to run them...it’s when not if the guards get replaced with AI robots then there is no need for plebs at all. Save some AI programmers, and some engineers,scientists and biologists. At some point AI might get creative enough to replace scientists and biologists too.


34 posted on 02/21/2024 3:38:37 PM PST by GenXPolymath
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To: nickcarraway

They’re working overtime to transfer it to humans I guess?


35 posted on 02/21/2024 3:38:53 PM PST by toddausauras (Trump Lake 2024....Go down swinging!)
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To: nickcarraway

At this point I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

No more. I’ve had it.


36 posted on 02/21/2024 3:41:45 PM PST by lizma2
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To: bray

“The only cure is mail-in ballots.”

Well, that and world socialism.


37 posted on 02/21/2024 3:42:17 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: nickcarraway

38 posted on 02/21/2024 3:42:21 PM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: catnipman

Scientists are making the claim that the prion can persist in the environment, shed in urine or feces or from.the carcass of a deer, and then make it into the human food supply.

Very scary but I don’t trust scientists with scare stories. They still scare me though....


39 posted on 02/21/2024 3:42:25 PM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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To: nickcarraway

Too many deer and elk for the amount of territory and food supply. Nature is reducing the numbers. Consequences of banning hunting in many areas by wackos. Maybe there will be fewer deer hits which are a leading cause of traffic incidents.

The disease “might” jump to humans. This is called “science”. Heavy use of “maybe” is a mainstay of modern grant seeking, er I mean science.


40 posted on 02/21/2024 3:43:21 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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