This clown appears to be in the terminal stages of that zombie disease...
Posted on 02/13/2019 1:58:57 PM PST by blam
A deadly disease that has affected the deer population in an estimated 24 states and two Canadian provinces could eventually spread to and infect humans, experts warn.
Experts from the University of Minnesota told lawmakers of the dangers of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), or what the U.S. Geological Survey describes as a “ fatal, neurological illness occurring in North American cervids (members of the deer family), including white-tailed deer, mule deer, elk, and moose.”
Currently, there are no vaccines or treatments available for the disease, which scientists say spreads directly through animal-to-animal contact but also indirectly through contaminated drinking water or food.
While there have been no reported cases of CWD in people, Michael Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, told lawmakers that the disease should be treated as a public health issue, claiming human cases of CWD will likely be “documented in the years ahead.”
“It is probable that human cases of CWD associated with the consumption of contaminated meat will be documented in the years ahead. It is possible that number of human cases will be substantial and will not be isolated events,” he said, in part, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press. .
Osterholm likened CWD to mad cow disease, which public health officials and those in the beef industry once did not think could infect people (it has since been confirmed that a cureless variant of mad cow — Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) — can adversely impact humans). CWD and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease belong to the same family of diseases known as prion diseases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
“If Stephen King could write an infectious disease novel, he would write about prions like this." — Michael Osterholm
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This is not something that can be cooked out of the deer meat.
This is not just a disease in northern deer:
Second Mississippi Deer Tests Positive For CWD As Disease Spreads
When I first glanced at the topic title, I thought it said “beer disease”. There was concern!
535 cases now confirmed inside the beltway in DC
“535 cases now confirmed inside the beltway in DC”
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Astonishing!
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“535 cases now confirmed inside the beltway in DC”
“Astonishing!”
And the amazing thing is that it improved their IQs.
I haven’t read up on Prions, but always menat to, because I heard someone say that they can stay dormant for years before causing that fold problem.
Not something to take for granted, I will not eat deer meat.
Bwahahahaha!!!
Prions...
Reminds me of the last 2 episodes of season 2 of Millennium.
(If anyone here remembers that show)
Extremely freaky and insane (especially the hallucination part [or was that the episode before]).
I remember the second to last, because the father in the beginning of the episode looked a lot like Phil Niekro and then he started talking about the Braves.
That was a great show, but, the last season waned.
Plus one.
Stay calm.
This is another could happen article. - Tom
Yeah. Only a handful of season 3 episodes were memorable. I liked the one with Art Bell when Peter’s Daughter got kidnapped.
Lance Henriksen is a great actor for dark characters.
Mad cow disease was effectively avoided by following kosher slaughter (no ill animals, meat kashered — drained of blood) and kosher butcher (no organs, no nerves, among other things).
I would assume this disease could be similarly avoided, being neurological.
G-d gave us these rules for a reason, you know.
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