Chronic wasting disease CWD in Whitetail deer
- Thread starter Grizzlypeg
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Get your information from an authoritative site, not some random goof on the Internet.
http://www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/chronic_wasting_disease.php
http://www.cwhc-rcsf.ca/chronic_wasting_disease.php
- Location
- Western Manitoba
Do not kid yourself that it is "emerging" - has been known to exist in wild deer in Saskatchewan for over 30 years - was a reason why multiple postings on road signs and various gov't notices in early 1990's in West Central Saskatchewan - Zone 46 in particular. Hopefully, scientists have discovered more about it since then - at the time, Sask. did a "cull" as a solution. So did Alberta. Did not work to stop the spread. So Manitoba did a cull in 2021/2022 and hoped for different results - was deer in these fields two days after the helicopters no longer seen. So science will point to the prion that causes it in the animal - the gov'ts reaction have done NADA about the prion or its existence in the soil and plants - they (we) just pay to have the deer shot - and will tell you they are stopping the spread of it.
As far as threat to deer - that I know of, is no known cure, nor even one instance of an animal recovering - is inevitably fatal to the infected animal - although that might take more than two years - during which time that infected and symptomless deer continues to spread that prion via it's snot, urine and other secretions, to be picked up and infect any other cervid - that includes moose, elk, caribou and others - is not just a "deer" issue, at all.
At least 30 years ago, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) was described as the cervid version of similar disease in sheep (scapies) that was described in Britain circa 1700's, similar to Mad Cow Disease (BSE), even to a human version called Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD), but, at least back then, was no known instance of a particular variant of that disease crossing from one species to another - in other words, was thought, then, that humans could not get CWD from deer, nor can a human get BSE from a cow, but can get CJD from another human. As mentioned, science may have found out different in past 30 years.
Risk of eating meat - back in the 1990's, the disease had not been found in blood or red meat - that might have changed since then - but back then was identified in many clear fluids within the infected animals - spinal cord and brain "juice", snot, saliva, urine, lymph fluid and lymph glands - was much written, then, about not contaminating your tools when processing the animals - yet at same time wanted hunter to severe head and submit for testing - I do not know how to do that except by cutting through the spine. And do not think you will clean or sterilize your butchering tools - a prion is not a living thing - can not kill it - like thinking you will kill a rock. So, gov't story not completely clear - I watched video from Sask gov't a few falls ago - how to cut open deer head and get sample they wanted for analysis - but sadly lacking about what you were going to do about the prions that you likely exposed yourself and your tools to, by doing that, if that deer was infected.
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- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Hahaha!
- Location
- Western Manitoba
Actually, as per advice given in 1990's Saskatchewan, IanON is not far off - eat, touch, handle only the red meat and nothing else, and was thought, then, that you would not be exposed to it. If you have ever processed a deer or any other carcass though, you will know how impossible that is to do.
Government doesn’t have your interests in mind and could care less. Looks at what’s happened these past few years.
I remember being in school and hearing a presentation about mad cow from a German farmer. He was telling the auditorium how mad cow would make its way to Canada. Propel though he was crazy, guess not.
Educate yourself about prions.
