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Deadly ‘Zombie’ Deer Disease Could Possibly Spread To Humans, Experts Warn
Fox News ^ | 2-13-2019

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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KEYWORDS: cwd; deer; deerdisease; hunters; madcowdisease; zombiedeer
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21 posted on 02/13/2019 3:23:00 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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22 posted on 02/13/2019 3:24:56 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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23 posted on 02/13/2019 3:25:48 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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24 posted on 02/13/2019 3:26:13 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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25 posted on 02/13/2019 3:29:06 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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26 posted on 02/13/2019 3:30:15 PM PST by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: z3n; Capt. Tom; blam

Prions have been around for decades. Found in sheep, cows, deer, camels, elk, cats and ostrich. From what I remember from school, don’t eat these animals brains. (Damn!)

There is form in humans called Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Although some cases have been theorized to be inherited, cannibals are at high risk.

I’m not too worried about this.


27 posted on 02/13/2019 3:43:29 PM PST by lizma2
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To: blam
Mississippi has found 11 so far. Tennessee in Hardeman and Fayette Counties has found over 94 since Thanksgiving. Mississippi was proactive and went after the first one found but most now are coming from the outbreak on the stateline of Tennessee.

I fear the disease in Tennessee is out of control. I suspect that a deer camp located at the county line of Fayette/Hardeman brought in the contaminated deer because the positives in Tennessee radiate from that location and spread out. That is my hypothesis.

28 posted on 02/13/2019 3:53:15 PM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: blam

And it’s possible there could be a rash of hot 35 year olds who want to jump my bones. And my wife would say that’s cool go ahead and do it.

Now back to our regularly scheduled program in the real world.


29 posted on 02/13/2019 3:59:08 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60's....You weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

“And it’s possible there could be a rash of hot 35 year olds who want to jump my bones. And my wife would say that’s cool go ahead and do it.”


I’ve often thought about how to jump to that alternative reality but, so far, no luck in actually getting there. I have, however, detected signals which tell me what is going on there. In that in that universe I also win the $1 billion Mega Millions ... before the 35-year-olds start jumping my bones. I have yet to find the universe in which that order is reversed.


30 posted on 02/13/2019 4:26:34 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: john316

Forgot RBG.


31 posted on 02/13/2019 4:29:17 PM PST by wgmalabama (Mittens is the new Juan. Go away mittens!)
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To: blam
CWD and bovine tuberculosis in Wisconsin and northern Michigan have been a known problem for the past decade.......

This is not new news.......

32 posted on 02/13/2019 4:39:21 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (ui)
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To: blam
FINALLY!


33 posted on 02/13/2019 4:51:45 PM PST by Bommer (Help 2ndDivisionVet - https://www.gofundme.com/mvc.php?route=category&term=married-recent-amputecan')
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To: dpetty121263

What meat will you eat?


34 posted on 02/13/2019 4:58:33 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: lizma2
"Prions have been around for decades. Found in sheep, cows, deer, camels, elk, cats and ostrich. From what I remember from school, don’t eat these animals brains. (Damn!)"

"The term 'prion' was coined by Stanley B. Prusiner of the University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco in 1982 to distinguish the infectious agent that causes scrapie in sheep, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle from other, more typical infectious agents. The prion hypothesis postulates that these diseases are caused not by a conventional virus or bacterium but by a protein that has adopted an abnormal form."

35 posted on 02/13/2019 5:24:58 PM PST by blam
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To: vetvetdoug
"Mississippi was proactive and went after the first one found but most now are coming from the outbreak on the stateline of Tennessee."

I read in the local paper this past week about two Alabama hunters ticketed because they were caught bringing two dead dear across the state line from Mississippi to Alabama.

36 posted on 02/13/2019 5:29:13 PM PST by blam
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To: Jewbacca
"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)."

Haven't you noticed that every cow in this country that provides food or milk has a number attached to it's ear. Every cow I see everywhere around here has that number thing on their ear.

37 posted on 02/13/2019 5:32:08 PM PST by blam
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To: Jewbacca
You are correct.

This disease has not spread to humans because the state DNRs and conservation people have done an excellent job of educating hunters about CWD.

The other thing that works in our favor is the symptoms of the disease are unmistakable. The deer become so emaciated and weakly that no hunter would want to shoot one except to possibly put it out of it's misery.

38 posted on 02/13/2019 5:43:02 PM PST by 2111USMC (Aim Small Miss Small)
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To: blam

CWD is the poster child for licensed big game hunting and good game management. Preventing overcrowding by selective culling (though big game hunting limits based on monitoring of herd populations) eliminates the threat.

You get hunters to pay for the privilege of keeping your deer population healthy.

Win-Win.


39 posted on 02/13/2019 7:27:34 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: Iowa Granny; Ladysmith; Diana in Wisconsin; JLO; sergeantdave; damncat; phantomworker; joesnuffy; ..
Outdoors/Rural/wildlife/hunting/hiking/backpacking/National Parks/animals list please FR mail me to be on or off . And ping me is you see articles of interest.

Earlier thread. From the panic you wouldn't know this is a decades old issue, dates to the 60s, Kind of like global warming, soon to morph back to the global cooling fears of the 70s.

40 posted on 02/14/2019 4:44:39 PM PST by SJackson (The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself)
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