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Trying to scare folks off of another source of food?
Posted on 2/22/24 at 7:58 am
Posted on 2/22/24 at 7:58 am
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Scientists fear that the highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) — known as ‘zombie deer disease’ — could mutate to infect humans. The results would be catastrophic. “The bottom-line message is we are quite unprepared,” said Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota. “If we saw a spillover right now, we would be in free fall. There are no contingency plans for what to do or how to follow up.”
The disease — which is 100 percent fatal and has no cure — “damages portions of the brain and typically causes progressive loss of body condition, behavioral changes, excessive salivation, and death,” according to the New York State Department of Health. The most likely way humans could contract the disease is through the consumption of infected venison — the same way bovine spongiform encephalopathy, more commonly known as mad cow disease, spread to humans and created a novel form of human prion disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Although it is estimated that humans consume 15,000 infected deer and elk annually, this has yet to occur. Although mad cow disease is not transmissible from human to human, experiments indicate CWD would be different. Sabine Gilch, a researcher at Canada’s University of Calgary, and her team injected CWD into “humanized” mouse models. The mice developed CWD and had infectious prions in their feces. “The implication is that CWD in humans might be contagious and transmit from person to person,” Gilch said. Experts confirmed the first cast of CWD in Yellowstone last year after a deer carcass tested positive for the disease, and it has been found in deer, elk, and moose populations in 33 states in the U.S. and Canada and as far away as Norway and South Korea.
Scientists fear that the highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) — known as ‘zombie deer disease’ — could mutate to infect humans. The results would be catastrophic. “The bottom-line message is we are quite unprepared,” said Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota. “If we saw a spillover right now, we would be in free fall. There are no contingency plans for what to do or how to follow up.”
The disease — which is 100 percent fatal and has no cure — “damages portions of the brain and typically causes progressive loss of body condition, behavioral changes, excessive salivation, and death,” according to the New York State Department of Health. The most likely way humans could contract the disease is through the consumption of infected venison — the same way bovine spongiform encephalopathy, more commonly known as mad cow disease, spread to humans and created a novel form of human prion disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Although it is estimated that humans consume 15,000 infected deer and elk annually, this has yet to occur. Although mad cow disease is not transmissible from human to human, experiments indicate CWD would be different. Sabine Gilch, a researcher at Canada’s University of Calgary, and her team injected CWD into “humanized” mouse models. The mice developed CWD and had infectious prions in their feces. “The implication is that CWD in humans might be contagious and transmit from person to person,” Gilch said. Experts confirmed the first cast of CWD in Yellowstone last year after a deer carcass tested positive for the disease, and it has been found in deer, elk, and moose populations in 33 states in the U.S. and Canada and as far away as Norway and South Korea.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:00 am to Night Vision
They arw going after Rogan with this new zombie disease
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:04 am to Night Vision
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The mice developed CWD and had infectious prions in their feces. “The implication is that CWD in humans might be contagious and transmit from person to person,”
How?
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:07 am to POTUS2024
This is all because we (most hunters) are
Treating a wild animal like a domesticated animal. It’s not natural. The US should ban congregative feeding sources.
Treating a wild animal like a domesticated animal. It’s not natural. The US should ban congregative feeding sources.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:10 am to Night Vision
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damages portions of the brain and typically causes progressive loss of body condition, behavioral changes, excessive salivation, and death
Sounds like they have found the lefty gene.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:11 am to SDVTiger
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They arw going after Rogan with this new zombie disease
Seen him on the hunting show Meat Eater a couple of times.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:11 am to POTUS2024
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How
Soylent Green apparently doesn’t kill the proteins in question.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:13 am to Night Vision
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Scientists fear that the highly contagious chronic wasting disease (CWD) — known as ‘zombie deer disease’ — could mutate to infect humans. The results would be catastrophic. “The bottom-line message is we are quite unprepared,” said Michael Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota. “If we saw a spillover right now, we would be in free fall. There are no contingency plans for what to do or how to follow up.”
Yeah...the guys at the Wuhan Lab already have this stored in their test tubes. They are working on the genetic codes which can determine the specific ethnicities that will be more vulnerable. Just in case Trump Nation seems unbeatable in the coming election.
The rule: if somebody can, somebody will. What fool would build nukes when SPECIFIC genetic viruses are much more militarily efficient, and impossible to trace back to the attacker.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:13 am to POTUS2024
I am not 100% sure but I believe that you would have to consume brain tissue or spinal cord to be infected with the prion. To be safe wear plastic gloves while processing.
I don't know anyone who eats brain or spinal cord.
If the deer looks wasted away just dispose of it.
I don't know anyone who eats brain or spinal cord.
If the deer looks wasted away just dispose of it.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:17 am to sc2anni
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If the deer looks wasted away just dispose of it.
If the deer looks wasted away, why would you go through the time and cost of processing it anyway?
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:21 am to teke184
Obviously, you wouldn't go to all that work if you saw it looked wasted. Maybe you would call green jeans to take it away.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:37 am to Night Vision
Proof that disease is real is abundant among politicians walking around DC
Posted on 2/22/24 at 8:46 am to Night Vision
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The disease — known as ‘muh-zombie deer disease’ — could mutate to infect humans. The results would be catastrophic...."is 100 percent fatal and has no cure — “damages portions of the brain and typically causes [ blah-blah, yada-yada scary sh#!!]
according to the New York State Department of Health.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 9:15 am to POTUS2024
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How?
Questioning the theory and narrative is verboten!
Just listen here, you... All you need to know is that really super smart science people say it's going to happen. Science, brah!
Posted on 2/22/24 at 9:52 am to Night Vision
Although it is estimated that humans consume 15,000 infected deer and elk annually, this has yet to occur
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So nothing new, just fear porn.
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So nothing new, just fear porn.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 10:07 am to Night Vision
they're just trying to mentally prepare you for when they cross it over to cows
Posted on 2/22/24 at 10:10 am to The Levee
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Treating a wild animal like a domesticated animal. It’s not natural. The US should ban congregative feeding sources.
Not sure I agree with banning, but certainly some education about why it is bad couldn't hurt.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 10:10 am to umrebel2009
Working on a vaccine as we speak.
Posted on 2/22/24 at 10:13 am to umrebel2009
Remember " mad cow disease"? That is about the same as CWD.
ETA:
About the same as Scrapies in sheep and Creuzfeldt- Jakob in humans.
ETA:
About the same as Scrapies in sheep and Creuzfeldt- Jakob in humans.
This post was edited on 2/22/24 at 10:23 am
Posted on 2/22/24 at 10:16 am to sc2anni
Difference is that deer hunting and processing is much more widely distributed than cattle slaughterhouses.
Having to actually hunt and kill the deer then bring them to the processing plant means more attention is paid to the quality of the meat than an industrialized raising and slaughter of cattle.
Having to actually hunt and kill the deer then bring them to the processing plant means more attention is paid to the quality of the meat than an industrialized raising and slaughter of cattle.
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