+ cwd

[Stalker69]

So elk tested positive for CWD, how many others on here have killed animals that tested positive ?

 

[swavescatter]

Is this a first? I was under the impression that elk had not yet been verified as carriers/infected?

Sucks if so.

 

[Jn78]

I have killed 3 cwd positive deer - 2 white tailed deer and 1 mule deer. One was fat. One was kinda skinny. One was so skinny it was gross.

Yeah, elk get it.

 

[grfox92]

Is this a first? I was under the impression that elk had not yet been verified as carriers/infected?

Sucks if so.

Elk very much get it. They have been just as long as deer.

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[grfox92]

So elk tested positive for CWD, how many others on here have killed animals that tested positive ?

I test every animal that I kill. It's never been detected in most of the units I hunt, but the biologists want the samples and I won't feed my kids anything that hasn't been tested. I have a cow tag in a unit with good prevalence, so we will see.

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[fmyth]

My WY unit 82 mule deer from 2021 doe, 2022 buck and 2023 buck all tested positive for CWD. Time for me to find a new unit.

 

[grfox92]

My WY unit 82 mule deer from 2021 doe, 2022 buck and 2023 buck all tested positive for CWD. Time for me to find a new unit.

Not surprised in that area.

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[mt terry d]

When has there been any proven health issue for eating meat from an animal testing positive for CWD
that appears in good health?

 

[rclouse79]

When has there been any proven health issue for eating meat from an animal testing positive for CWD
that appears in good health?

Or bad health for that matter?

 

[gwtravis]

unit 33 colorado cwd positive bull

 

[Stalker69]

When has there been any proven health issue for eating meat from an animal testing positive for CWD
that appears in good health?

Well there hasn’t been any thing proven, but they have never tested a human for CWD either, so there’s that. We wanted my mom and father in law tested, and the hospital docs had no clue what we were asking. There is no test available, so we were told , on both accounts. Both were just “ diagnosed “ with dementia.

 

[grfox92]

When has there been any proven health issue for eating meat from an animal testing positive for CWD
that appears in good health?

Like mentioned above. No human has ever been tested. Based on the likely symptoms they would just be diagnosed with dementia.

I don't believe anyone has ever gotten it from eating meat. Not sure anyone ever will. I just choose not to eat an animal who is possitive with a fatal prion disease. I also choose not to make the decision for my kids to eat it. When they get older if they want to eat possitive or untested meat, that's fine.

Prion diseases are no joke, and there are zero neuro scientists who will tell you to eat the meat or eat it themselves.

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[Stalker69]

So it’s basically the same thing as mad cow disease, which people have died of, confirmed. Only the species is different. CJD ( which people have died of) is the known human form of it. But they do not, will not, “test “ for it in a autopsy .

 

[wytx]

Good lord folks get some facts.
Dementia is not CJD. Variant CJD is the one that some feel is related to CWD but has not been proven yet, it manifests most closely with cwd.
Dementia and CJD are very different illnesses.

As to date there have been no species barrier crossing with cwd unless injected right into brain tissue- yes that monkey study was injected cwd prions. That means one animal giving it to another animal species.

If your family shows signs of variant CJD they most certainly test for it and keep track of cases throughout the country.

Yes I've had a positive and it was healthy looking and we ate it. We hunt in the endemic area in Wyoming and rarely get our animals tested unless mandated or they look unhealthy.
Be very clean gutting and processing, avoid spinal fluids, brain matter etc and you should be good. Might avoid lymph nodes since they test those now too.


Would I feed it to my kids or give meat to anyone without them knowing about it, no.

 

[Stalker69]

So your kids where good eating it or not ? You said you would not feed it to them knowingly. But yet you say “ we” ate it after testing positive. You may want to get it straight, and if you live and hunt in an endemic area and don’t have them tested, you are most likely feeding them positive meat. Avoiding the the spinal fluid and what not does not decrease it, if it tests positive the whole thing, meat included is positive. There no such thing as “ a little bit of CWD”. Its positive or unknown. And if you gutted a positive animal, the prions can stay attached to the pores in your knife blade, cleaning board and about anything else for years and years. Clorox I have found does not eliminate it either. I was instructed to get rid of any thing that came in contact with the animal. No way in hell I am feeding this to my kids or grand kids.

 

[Sccritterkiller]

Never had an animal tested...so it's possible I have killed something with CWD.

 

[ResearchinStuff]

Clorox I have found does not eliminate it either

This study says bleach does fine with a couple minutes exposure.

Inactivation of chronic wasting disease prions using sodium hypochlorite - PMC

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal prion disease that can infect deer, elk and moose. CWD has now been detected in 26 states of the USA, 3 Canadian provinces, South Korea, Norway, Sweden and Finland. CWD continues to spread from endemic areas, ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[KurtR]

It’s been around since the 60’s if some one was getting it would have happened. Just another way for “science “ to make money.

 

[Fever Buck]

Shot my first mule deer Buck last year in Colorado near Meeker. Big body but only a 2 point. Old deer too. Tested positive for CWD.

 

[mtwarden]

I remember 40+ years ago when you butchered big game, you always had a butcher saw- those days are gone.