Two hunters 'become first Americans to die from ZOMBIE DEER disease

Daily Mail ^ | 4-18-2024 | EMILY JOSHU

[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.

[Paul46360]

In 2019 it was reported that this COULD spread to humans.

[Red Badger]

I’ve seen this movie.

It doesn’t end well.................

[null and void]

I’m blaming you.

[BigFreakinToad]

I don’t like game meat.

[Red Badger]

It must have been undercooked!......................

[ConservativeMind]

I don’t believe cooking can do anything to inactivate prions, if this is like Mad Cow Disease.

[Uncle Miltie]

Prions don’t care about heat, iirc.

[BigFreakinToad]

maybe. Over cooked, undercooked, I just don’t like it.

[Uncle Miltie]

“Prions cannot be destroyed by boiling, alcohol, acid, standard autoclaving methods, or radiation. In fact, infected brains that have been sitting in formaldehyde for decades can still transmit spongiform disease. Cooking your burger ‘til it’s well done won’t destroy the prions!”

https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/prions

[DUMBGRUNT]

—”It must have been undercooked!...”

Autoclaving doesn’t inactivate BSE, and that would be extra well done beyond use for shoe leather.

[mkmensinger]

“...which leaves deer confused, drooling,...”

Has Joe Biden been checked for this illness?

[dfwgator]

One of the victims, a 72-year-old man, suffered 'rapid-onset confusion and aggression,'

They'd better check Biden for it.

[dfwgator]

GMTA!

[AppyPappy]

“Prions don’t care about heat, iirc.”

Or your feelings

[ptsal]

bkmk

[mikelets456]

Then how does one know if meat is tainted or not?

[mkmensinger]

Yes indeed! :^)

[Drew68]

Two hunters 'become first Americans to die from ZOMBIE DEER disease

How did I guess from the headline alone that this was a Daily Fail article?

[ptsal]

When will turkey vultures drop out of the sky after scarfing up these flavorful dead deer?

[Red Badger]

Then how do you get rid of it or destroy it? Launch it into the Sun?...............