Posted on 08/23/2019 10:30:19 AM PDT by RummyChick
A fatal so-called 'zombie' disease swiftly spreading in the United States and Canada among deer, elk and moose might put humans at risk if they eat diseased venison.
Chronic wasting disease causes elk and deer to stop eating and behave in confused ways as their brains are turned into sponges by abnormal proteins.
The slowly incubating disease, which leaves microscopic holes in an animal's brain, is caused by prions.
They are the same rogue proteins that caused bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease, in Britain in the 1980s.
About 200 people in the Britain and Europe died of prion-based Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease about 10 years after eating infected beef.
Today, about one in 2,000 people in Britain harbour inactive prions in their bodies, but have not yet shown symptoms, scientists say.
So far, there is no evidence that chronic wasting disease can cross species from deer to humans.
But abnormal prion diseases can take years to show up and prions are known to mutate into new forms, a new call-to-action opinion paper suggests.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
This does explain Democrats.
Too late.
Just look at this year’s crop of ‘Rats.
Something else we’ll just have to learn to live with, like Lyme disease, because no one wants to shoot Bambi.
The disease is now in Virginia, probably putting an end to my use of venison.
It already has, the rats
I had a zombie dear whose brain rotted.
Hated to lose her.
There is some debate if prions can be found in muscle tissue.
“...behave in confused ways as their brains are turned into sponges by abnormal proteins.”
Liberals!
Walt Disney ruined our country by making animals talk not too long after the 19th amendment passed.
Prions are not living creatures, they are molecules.
They can “survive” temperatures of 600° F, far higher than ordinary sterilizers can reach.
Some damn Leftist must have bit a deer and infected it.
In a few months the place where I live will become a hunting paradise as one half million hunters search for deer. And we have some wasting disease in the county where I live.
Then venison will be everywhere. People share it, at work mostly.
And yes prions are slow but no one here has been felled by them,
Slow news day.
Daily Mail on top of things The disease was first recognized in 1967 in in captive mule deer in Colorado.
What happens when a human is bit by a tick or mosquito that fed on the blood of a deer? I wonder if those Prions are transmittable in that manor.
Putting millions of people at risk.
Sure deer run across highways like they have no brains, especially during mating season, but now they have a reason.
the eastern shore seems to be isolated for now...
we need to kill more and cull the herd of deer too.
They can “survive” temperatures of 600° F, far higher than ordinary sterilizers can reach.
An article I read a while back said that prions can be destroyed with ordinary contact lens storage solution.
The prions are proteins and the enzymes in the solution break them down.
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