Thoughts on my own CWD situation

[cnelk]

it's funny CWD was first found in a government facility with captive deer…

I'm far more worried about EHD than CWD.

I can see those CSU deer pens from my house. Theres a hiking trail along the foothills that goes right by the pens.
Elk and deer live there

BTW - If they quit testing for CWD, it would go away

 

[mxgsfmdpx]

Eat the meat.
We are all waiting for someone to be the first one to get CWD

Yep. Folks have been eating CWD positive meat for close to 50 years now.

I can understand some folks being hesitant when it comes to their kids. But then they feed them meat from the grocery store full of other garbage ‍

 

[bowhuntercoop]

Never tested, never will. I eat everything I kill. Whitetails, mule deer, elk.

 

[dieselchessy]

Meat eater did a podcast on cwd recently. Like other such conversations they talk of CWD effects on deer and possible effects on humans, but leave out the conversation of transmission paths, and preventing such transmission paths.
We are left with lots of speculation on meat mixing at butchers, spread from handling, what deactivates prions, ect…

One thing that sticks out to me is that they seem to detect CWD any time they start testing for CWD anywhere they test.
Have they done significant testing of isolated populations to see what they find? Like testing sitka blacktail on an island in SE Alaska or Kodiak, or maybe caribou on Adak island, or elk on Etolin island, (both planted populations), ect…

I wonder what would happen if hunters did a blind test of scientists by submitting samples from those isolated places, but not disclosing the harvest location?

Another thing that sticks out to me. The tests dont indicate an infection free animal. They indicate no detection in the sample tested.

The dog test seemed interesting, but the article didnt describe how infected the CWD positive elk was, or other details of the other fecal samples used for testing. I suppose its possible the dogs were 100% correct and the humans were 80% wrong.

 

[Soj51hopeful]

No. Not at all. Unless people are eating that person.

Last I checked cannibalism is rather rare.

That’s not how cwd is spread. The deer aren’t eating each other.