Deer in 24 states infected

[Lee Borgersen]

  Deer in 24 states infected with chronic wasting disease. 


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Chronic wasting disease has been detected in wild deer, elk or moose in 24 states, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warning hunters to avoid handling or eating potentially infected meat.The disease affects the central nervous system and animals can show signs of drastic weight loss, lack of coordination and listlessness. It can make them more aggressive and less afraid of human contact, the center says.

 
It's in the same family of disease as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which the CDC describes as "a rapidly progressive, invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder."
The center says scientists believe the contagious disease is passed between animals through bodily fluids.

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Currently, there is no evidence the disease can spread to humans, but the CDC warned hunters to be cautious around potentially infected animals.
It advised people not to handle or eat meat from deer and elk that seem sick or have been found dead. It says latex or rubber gloves should be worn when handling the meat and contact kept to a minimum -- especially when handling organs such as the brain or spinal cord.

In deer and other cervids, the disease has an incubation period of over a year, with some animals not showing symptoms for years after being infected, the CDC says. But the disease is always fatal.

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department says animals will test positive for the disease long before its clinical signs appear "and the majority of CWD positive animals that are harvested appear completely normal and healthy."
The disease was first found in captive deer in Colorado in the 1960s and in wild deer in 1981.

Cases of the disease have also been reported in Canada, Norway and Finland.

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[Leech~~]

Kind of makes you wonder if there always has been some.  Is it new? Or are we just new at learning that's it's always been? 

[Rebel SS]

I'd bet it's been around im some capacity a long time. Probably ramped up when we started penning in wild creatures for "deer farms" and other such foolishness. A lot of things happen to animals when they are stressed and changed out of their natural habitat....who's to say?

[mike89]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/zombie-deer-disease-is-in-24-states-and-thousands-of-infected-deer-are-eaten-each-year-expert-warns/ar-BBTG39K?li=BBnb7Kz

they just like saying the same thing a different way I think???

[Rebel SS]

Pretty soon an infected deer will accidentally be ground up with hamburger, then be eaten...then hundreds of humans will come down with it...and walk in circles, bounce off trees, and drool while making grunting sounds...not unlike a large group of politicians.   

[Gunner55]

Pretty soon an infected deer will accidentally be ground up with hamburger, then be eaten...then hundreds of humans will come down with it...and walk in circles, bounce off trees, and drool while making grunting sounds...not unlike a large group of politicians.   

& little blue people   

[Leech~~]

Pretty soon an infected deer will accidentally be ground up with hamburger, then be eaten...then hundreds of humans will come down with it...and walk in circles, bounce off trees, and drool while making grunting sounds...not unlike a large group of politicians.   

Well with the Millions of wild game killed and eaten each year I would think that eating it may have already happened with no Ill effect to humans. 
Well other then............... 

 

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[Rebel SS]

Maybe we just attribute it to something else......    

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[Rebel SS]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/hunters-say-it-s-not-zombie-disease-they-are-worried-n972476

[glenn57]

Pretty soon an infected deer will accidentally be ground up with hamburger, then be eaten...then hundreds of humans will come down with it...and walk in circles, bounce off trees, and drool while making grunting sounds...not unlike a large group of politicians.   

& little blue people   

i just seen this!!!!!!!!!! i aint foaming at dat mouth yet......so i be good!!!!!!

[Rebel SS]

It's that darned Gunner, not me! What's he up to lately?!    

[Gunner55]

  I be here 

[delcecchi]

First we shut down all the deer farms.  Then we heat up t he tar, and get some feathers.  Then we find those guys who were supposed to be watching the deer farmers....  And a rail.