Protocols: what to do with meat while CWD test is pending?

[Helislacker]

The University of Wyoming, U of Calgary, and U of Alberta are all working hard on a vaccine for CWD prions in Cervids. I know Alberta has been hit particularly hard with some areas of infected animals being upwards of 85%. While I’m skeptical, it sounds like significant progress has been made even since 2019. How that vaccine would be administered to wild animals is another issue in itself but at least there’s something positive on this front. It’s pretty depressing when you start looking into this issue.

 

[Huntindog45]

well... i would just eat it.

 

[mt terry d]

The University of Wyoming, U of Calgary, and U of Alberta are all working hard on a vaccine for CWD prions in Cervids. I know Alberta has been hit particularly hard with some areas of infected animals being upwards of 85%. While I’m skeptical, it sounds like significant progress has been made even since 2019. How that vaccine would be administered to wild animals is another issue in itself but at least there’s something positive on this front. It’s pretty depressing when you start looking into this issue.

Well, won't they all be extinct shortly?

To OP:
Just eat it FCOL.

 

[Quercus]

Prions bind to various surfaces differently, e.g. higher affinity for clay soil vs sandy soil. It's not like you can't wash prion-containing soil off your boot outsoles. Are you going to remove all of the prions? Probably not, but you're almost certainly going to be tracking material less around.

Here's a study where they compare different materials and whether they were able to sample detectable amounts of prion off of each.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412022002744

If I had to bet, my money is on hay and feed being the mechanism by which it is jumping state lines, not anything hunting related.