Thoughts on my own CWD situation

[Idaboy]

Like others said, call the bio. You do not need lymph nodes, you have the brain if you want to test

 

[Goseth04]

My heart goes out to you. It's a lousy spot to be in after a successful hunt. Please make those calls to FWP, they deal with this regularly and will guide you through the process. Good luck.

 

[z987k]

Does the processor guarantee your own meat back? Including the meat in the sticks and sausage?

Doesn't really matter if they do. It's very unlikely that the cleaning processors do would remove prions from their equipment.

 

[Will_m]

If you have regularly eaten deer in that area, you are just giving yourself a reason to worry. I wouldn’t test it because you’ve eaten a cwd positive deer before.

 

[Yoder]

Did you eat any of it yet? If you did, it's too late anyway. I would just eat it. We have it in my general area, and I've never had any of mine tested.

 

[Wrench]

I have a hard time buying into the cwd crisis. We took nodes in for testing and asked the bio about the spread as Washington state is apparently the epicenter of the area. She said so far no positive tests, but last year was "really bad". They had 3 positive tests that came in from all the animals that year. This sounds fishy to me.