Posted on 06/13/2024 4:02:34 AM PDT by major_gaff
If you read any of the headlines about chronic wasting from April this year, you might be convinced that “zombie
deer disease” has jumped the species barrier and is now causing deer hunter deaths. But those quick-hit news
stories were more of a function of shoddy reporting than any new scientific development. In fact, recent research
published in the June issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases found that CWD prions fail to infect
human brain tissue. This study backs up years of previous research that has come to similar conclusions.
(Excerpt) Read more at outdoorlife.com ...
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who ever said it doesn’t has never visited a homeless camp. have two middle aged family members doing the homeless thing. wifey takes them food, feeds anyone surrounding them if the food lasts, takes them to the food bank once a week. they could work but they don’t (Won’t) but half the ones I’ve had any contact with ARE wasting away, mostly on purpose. I do help in my small way by giving advice...GET A JOB! wifey thinks I’m being mean. what do you think?
But the woke political parasites, oh they want it so
“Does Chronic Wasting Disease Infect Humans? Despite Shocking Headlines, Recent Research Suggests It Does Not”
Nice try, but I know lots of Deadheads.
Chronic wasting is like dementia in humans, deer do not eat or drink and waste away, why would anyone eat venison from a deer with wasting disease? If early in the disease it may be hard to tell. Testing is free so why not be certain.
They look like Joe Biden on a good day and a zombie near the end. Saw one with a nice rack, hunter kept the rack and dispose of the carcass. Not sure it had CWD to be honest, how did it grow that rack when it was not taking in food? I thought he should have had it tested it may have just looked like hell due to the rut. You know like Kanye on a week long viagra fueled sex romp.😂
Then explain social media.
Calm down you say, it appears to have hit Washington DC rather hard.
I’ve seen the research that came to the conclusion that CWD does not infect humans and am not convinced the study was thorough enough. Scrapie went into cattle and deer when the “experts” said it only infected sheep. The safe and smart thing to do is test the deer before consuming it and if it’s positive not eat it. There was a family in Kentucky that developed CJD after eating squirrel brains. It is prudent to be cautious.
“ I boil it until meat separates from bone and tallow. Makes great dog food, healthier than garbage in stores.”
I hope you make sure they get enough fat and vitamins. Venison is notoriously lean, so lean that Lewis and Clark had health problems from not getting enough fat.
Never eat the organs of a harvested deer and debone the roasts.
Those folks are malnourished. They are not suffering from Chronic Wasting disease. That’s an entirely different thing
Homeless and not eating is about choices in one’s life
Wasting away sure. But not by the methods described in this article. Drugs, alcohol, apathy, pride, rebelliousness, all sorts of things cause one to waste away.
I grind the meat and mix it with raw spinach, broccoli and carrots. I add brown rice to the remaining broth and then mix it all together. Sometimes I add seared calf liver (not good for them raw). Got curious one time and ate a spoonful, was surprisingly not bad. Great way to also dispose of meat too long in the freezer. Also older dog gets multivitamins with his meals. Makes about four days of food for two large dogs. Week to ten days for one large dog. Cheap but healthy dog food when I use venison because it only costs a bullet.
The research assumes the conversion to a prion is direct, from one prion changing the conformation of normal protein, in isolation. But if there were some other cofactor necessary, like in CWD, maybe a co-infection producing antibodies which facilitated the change, then testing if the prion alone will do it will show it won’t, whereas if it were combined with the unknown cofactor, it would.
They openly say in the paper they don’t know 100% that direct transformation in isolation is the mechanism of disease, then say they tested if it would produce disease, it would not, so therefore it is safe.
I would say the lack of caution in the result is outright malpractice. You have two hunters who ate a CWD deer who got CJD. You’d think they would err on the side of safety.
You might want to just research boutique dog foods and taurine deficiency. Dogs were getting heart failure from special super expensive foods like you are preparing, when given it in isolation, and they thought the food might have been Taurine deficient.
The irony is, they said the cheap cornmeal they used in cheaper foods going back decades, just because it was a cheap filler, was supplying taurine, so nobody really knew it was needed.
But your dogs sound appropriately spoiled. Good job!
I studied CJD, Scrapie, and Kuru in microbiology years ago and there were many hypothesis about the transmission of the disease. We called them “slow viruses” back then. Biochemistry has evolved to identify the culprit but there still have’t been studies to characterize the prions replication and identify cofactors necessary to infect an individual. It could be genetics. In the early 80’s we had a product made from rumens of sheep and were fed to cattle...I suspect it was the origin of “Mad Cow” disease. In Europe “Mad Cow” spread into the beef herds and before it was correctly identified they fed the carcasses to hogs...and the hogs had the “mad cow” but since their lifespans were short no one identified it for quite some time and those consuming the hogs developed CJD like syndromes. I wouldn’t eat any animal that tested positive for CWD. The study that is mentioned that CWD is safe was done on only 10 macaques and 10 spider monkeys. The ten spider monkeys died of CWD and the macaques lived and died of natural causes. I wouldn’t place my bets on a study with just these results.
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