[Dr.Deth]

This does explain Democrats.

[BenLurkin]

Too late.

Just look at this year’s crop of ‘Rats.

[Steely Tom]

Something else we’ll just have to learn to live with, like Lyme disease, because no one wants to shoot Bambi.

[ArtDodger]

The disease is now in Virginia, probably putting an end to my use of venison.

[ronnie raygun]

It already has, the rats

[DannyTN]

I had a zombie dear whose brain rotted.

Hated to lose her.

[LukeL]

Prions are only in CNS tissue. It was common practice in England to grind up the waste products of cattle and add it back into animal feed. The waste products were bones and spinal cords among other things. This caused wide spread infections in cattle. People would eat the brains of cows in certain lunch meats or brains were added as filler for ground beef. This is how people got sick.

There is some debate if prions can be found in muscle tissue.

[Carriage Hill]

“...behave in confused ways as their brains are turned into sponges by abnormal proteins.”

Liberals!

[Steely Tom]

Prions are not living creatures, they are molecules.

They can “survive” temperatures of 600° F, far higher than ordinary sterilizers can reach.

[MarMema]

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.

[UB355]

Daily Mail on top of things The disease was first recognized in 1967 in in captive mule deer in Colorado.

[puppypusher]

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.

[KarlInOhio]

Next season on the exciting AMC/Animal Planet crossover series: The Rutting Dead.

Sure deer run across highways like they have no brains, especially during mating season, but now they have a reason.

[Yo-Yo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5PInhXkfvs

[SpaceBar]

...could spread to humans'...

Who says it hasn't?

[northislander]

It already has just look at the Democrat Party...

[major_gaff]

as I have stated on an earlier 'Zombie Deer' thread:

CWD has been in PA for at least a decade now first showing up in
captive deer that were brought in from out of state, I believe. I don't
worry about it too much as I butcher my own venison. Don't harvest
visibly sick deer, don't eat the internal organs and de-bone all of the
meat and you'll be OK.

I harvest several whitetails a year, eat more venison than beef and have
been doing so for close to 3 decades and have not gotten this disease...this
is just more anti-hunting crap.

[familyop]

Avoid eating organ tissue.

[Fireone]

You can cut your risk by boning out the animals, rather than using a bandsaw to cut your steaks. The CWD lives in the bone marrow, not in the meat.

[bert]

Now I finally know why the Moose ate my sister.

It was mentally ill