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.)
Deer will eat birds and other small animals under certain conditions.
Generally out here in Kansas it happens when hunters bait their deer with corn on the ground or a mineral lick, where many deer congregate together, if one of the animals has it they can transmit it easily. The Department of Wildlife and Parks wants to ban the practice. For the sake of the Kansas deer herd I hope they can get legislation passed.
“But how do deer catch it? They don’t eat flesh,”
That’s a good question, I know it has been around ... but it had to come from somewhere?
“But how do deer catch it?”
The vax.
The prions are in the soil and even taken up by plants. Deer pass it through their saliva, grooming, feces, urine, food, scrapes. There isn’t anything like a gold standard scientific study on modes of transmission and percent of occurrence because it is a study impossible to do in a wildlife setting.
Game agencies set up rules trying to contain it just because they have to appear to be doing something. But they don’t have any true science that can be cited.
Don’t use common sense. That isn’t allowed on FR and the real world.
Prion diseases are truly terrifying. Random misfolded proteins are a real biological reset concern. Just imagine the world giving out a genetic code that the find out later has slippage points, creating random proteins that may or may not be understood. Throw in the political desire to not look for a protein set of possibilities but also refuse to look if any are being misfolded. Hell it might show up early as a 10-20% increase in mortality then the avalanche.
The issues with CWD in deer has been that it’s stated no one has died from cross contamination but yet we know that isn’t even close to true.
Prion diseases are a truly a possible zombie apocalypse or a species ending issue. I rank prions at the #1 real possible civilization ending disease that isn’t really a disease. It’s a genetic abnormality.
If anyone is a real expert on this, I would love to discuss this but if you’re a dougwayduke BS artist then please don’t bother.