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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Stop hunting altogether then, cause you won’t know if it’s positive or not till after you’ve gutted it or butchered it. By that point I’m just eating it and not worrying about what if’s.
CWD - How do you handle a positive animal
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Got a source? That would be nice but my understanding is it's 100% fatal so it's not like there are survivors passing on their genetics...
On Google I do see some stuff about resistance being genetic, but nothing about actually seeing lower rates of infection. I admit I didn't look too hard, im not at home right now.
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They're injecting it into the brains of the "humanized" mice and even then the results are variable.
Stomach acid breaks down proteins and the Human stomach is ~10,000 times more acidic than that of a deer. I'm not an "expert" but my money says that a prion cannot "survive" the Human stomach.
mad cow disease's prion survives the human stomach acid
or rather does not get destroyed since it is not alive
You sure about that? The literature uses words such as "believed" and "likely". These prions sound magical.
My guess is every person that ate beef in the UK consumed meat from an animal with Mad Cow.
There is also a genetic component.
The chances of catching CWD from venison is likely too small to measure.
yes, the mad cow disease is proven to transmit to humans simply by ingesting beef
I was working in London UK at the time of the "great cow burning pyres" and the Canadian blood services won't allow me to donate blood ever since. Because.... prions
They removed that restriction recently.
good to know, I'm an "universal donor"
not going to reply any more
but you may want to google the subject
and next re-read the U of Calgary study conclusions
178 dead people and their families would disagree... well, not the dead people. They can't disagree anymore.
I read the existing CWD prions would have to mutate before they could infect humans. The host has to be susceptable in order to get the disease, or the prion has to mutate such that it can now infect the victim. So far, in 40 plus years of it in the states, that hasn't happened. This is all being studied in the States.
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/s...encies-and-resistance-chronic-wasting-disease
Multiple studies have demonstrated that various alleles of the cervid prion protein (PRNP) gene affect chronic wasting disease (CWD) progression.
Why this matters: Specific genetic differences in the cervid prion protein gene have been linked to disease ‘resistance’ and there is some evidence that gene frequencies in wild populations with high CWD prevalence are shifting towards these ‘resistant’ genotypes. It has been argued that this shift may eventually control CWD in the wild. A thorough examination of published science, however, suggests the situation may be more complex.
Multiple studies have demonstrated that various alleles of the cervid prion protein (PRNP) gene affect chronic wasting disease (CWD) progression.
Why this matters: Specific genetic differences in the cervid prion protein gene have been linked to disease ‘resistance’ and there is some evidence that gene frequencies in wild populations with high CWD prevalence are shifting towards these ‘resistant’ genotypes. It has been argued that this shift may eventually control CWD in the wild. A thorough examination of published science, however, suggests the situation may be more complex.
or as the U of Calgary lady said, the boffins may not be looking at the right signature
Yeah, maybe its just causes lower IQ. Or maybe gender confusion?
