more cases, but this kind of thing could prevent people that have eaten wild deer meat from donating blood.

I'd bet these people had a strong anti-government bent in their political opinions. It would also not surprise me if they were warned not to consume any deer they got who had obvious symptoms of this disease and they went a head and did it anyway.

This disease is very similar to the one that affected beef cattle and people who consumed them. Why would you not see the connection between whatever is affecting the animal you're eating and its potential impact on you?

From what I've seen online, its very hard to remove the pathogen once its in the environment. Even burning doesn't seem to remove it. That's why any cattle who have this are immediately euthanized and buried. It will be impossible to do that to wild deer herds. Others have said this has probably spread due to the prevalence of raising and moving deer around for private hunting events. Another activity (controlled hunting) that I do not understand the attraction to.

They’re just affected protein tissue that become misshapen. When the prion touches other protein tissue, it causes that tissue to become misshapen as well. Cooking it doesn’t matter.

That’s why prions slowly destroy your brain. It’s a slow chain reaction.

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Humans evolved to eat meat, to be hypercarnivores for 2 million years before the introduction of modern agriculture.

I'm six years behind you but I enjoy lots of meats. I eat my vegetables and fruits, too!

Besides meat for protein, our hominin ancestors also collected and ate wild grains, fruits, seeds, roots, and greens, especially when a meat kill was not available. Eventually our ancestors learned to herd and breed their meat sources and to plant and breed their own fruit, vegetable, and grain sources.

I have relatives who hunt. Sometimes they travel to hunt deer. If they get a deer, they get it tagged and recorded, then turn the carcass over to a meat processing plant that processes game. The company weighs the deer and then process all of the deer they get at the same time together. Each hunter gets back a share of the communally processed meat. It seems like even if you shoot a healthy animal, who's to say everyone did? And who would be able to track infected meat backward from that kind of processing?

Another thing. Many times when the deer meat is processed into sausage, the processors add beef or pork to make the sausage milder flavored. Or they add suet to make the meat moister. I imagine that the meat products from domestic animals is rigorously tested, but I'm kind of glad I haven't had any of the venison :/

Did MAGA become totally infected with Chronic Brain Wasting Disease, CBW?
Potted meat? Or eating all the Bull Shit they are fed from Fox et al? Does Bull Fecal Matter carry the virus?

I'm no expert, but I did a research paper on prion diseases years and years ago and what I learned frightened me. I do not even eat beef. It's a terrible way to die, both for victim and family members.

as a calcium supplement.

He’s orange and insane.

that is why I never eat carrots!!!

That's what the Bunny Coalition tells me, but I find them awfully biased.

and that exposes them to the infected droppings from other animals with spongiform encephalitis.

I have to wonder how they persuaded deer to eat meat or how well the deer managed to digest it.

Around here, it's elk populations that are infected.

I've seen 3 cases of the human form of the disease and it is horrendous. Caring for those patients put me at a higher risk of developing it, one of my monsters under the bed when I wake up and can't get back to sleep.

The only good news is that human cases are extremely rare, even among hunters who find it a little too easy to bag that deer and then find out it doesn't have a hell of a lot of meat left on its poor bones.

Before you eat it to ensure it doesn't have CWD.

I know people who love venison and fill their freezers with it regularly. But they never get it tested. I think that is just very dangerous of them, especially when they are feeding it to their children.

Since I have found out about CWD, I have stopped eating venison.

The last out break of Mad Cow disease in the UK spread because young calves were eating prion-infected meat-and-bone meal. Cows don't get BSE from being near other cows that have it. But it can be transmitted through the food supply.

The prions differ between the diseases. A diagnosis of CJD is based on testing for which prion caused the disease.

or drink anything including water, PFast is gonna get ya.