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over the years ive heard a few stories about what happens if you cut yourself while butchering/gutting game meat...:eek:
your in the middle of butchering or prepping and you cut your finger..no rubber gloves around,its hot out and you have to get the job done ASAP...:redface:
is it true i will grow antlers:confused:or will the game meat get a hint of some fogducker in it while its cooking cp:
anyone have any facts about our blood on game meat:onCrack:
 
I've heard you can get blood poisoning that way. To be honest, I've nicked my hands every now and then when gutting. This year one of my hunting partners was nice enough to slip with yonder knife and sliced my index finger down to the knuckle bone. I just cleaned it up as quick as I could and disinfected it before putting on a bandage and continuing cutting meat. Nothing bad has happened to me, except for that slice leaving a nice scar.
 
Probably most of us who have gutted a few wild critters have cut themselves in the process at least once. I have never heard of anyone getting sick or worse from it. Of course, my circle of hunting friends is not large enough to be statisically significant so your mileage may vary.
 
Just buy a little med box that you can keep in your car for that and anything else. Can keep a pack of rubber gloves in there or somewhere else too.

If you cut yourself just disinfect it and bandage it up. Then if you think it's picking up an infection or just seems pretty bad, stop by a doctor/hospital.

I hope you don't grow any antlers but in the case that you do I'd advise you to not hunt for the rest of the season/until they shed. But for sure possible to get sick/infection or something from it. So yea keep some medical supplies and take care of it. :p
 
Yes deer blood is considered a biohazard, and any cut should be cleaned immediatly..
The chance of having an infected animal is very low.. but you never know..



WHO - Laboratory biosafety manual said:
Precautions with materials that may contain prions
Prions (also referred to as “slow viruses”) are associated with the transmissible spongiform
encephalopathies (TSEs), notably Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD; including the
new variant form), Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia
and kuru in humans; scrapie in sheep and goats; bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE) in cattle; and other transmissible encephalopathies of deer, elk and mink.
Although CJD has been transmitted to humans, there appear to be no proven cases of
laboratory-associated infections with any of these agents. Nevertheless, it is prudent
to observe certain precautions in the handling of material from infected or potentially
infected humans and animals.
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Bison

A couple pals of mine (both members here) went to Sask a couple years back to collect a bison from another friend who raises them.

In the process of skinning the beasts...... both guys nicked their hands, nothing too bad,,, (of course thought nothing of it, because thats something most of us do at some time or another)

Long story short.

Both guys developed a terrible infection, and it set in very fast.....Very painful........ Hospital, antibiotics , etc.

One hand took months for the swelling pain and stiffness to subside.

Nasty thing, whatever it was.

....... Anyone ever heard of anything similar????

The only blood I ever gave second thought about was kritters like yotes or foxes...cp: ... wear gloves???


Lucky
 
I have a 4" scar on the back of my forarm as result of a bone scratch about 6 years ago. The scratch was such that it scabbed over and looked infected but took about three weeks to heel. After gutting a deer a year ago I washed the blood off my forearms with wet grass and alfalfa. Every little scratch from the grass showed up as small lines indicating an allergic reaction. I wear nitrile gloves but no one rushes me. this year I wiped my forearms with some wet ones, washed off with bottled water, wiped with paper towels and no problem.
 
I have worked with human blood for a lot of years, and oh yes, I have a fair bit on my hands. Also done my share in microbiology labs.

My advice is to wear nitrile or latex gloves,...now that said, I rarely do when gutting an animal. I do however practice good hand hygiene.

It is easy enough to get a cut infected while gutting an animal, shoveling manure, working in a barn stall, etc.

It's the environment in which your handa are working.

Most infections will be of the routine culprits.

I have never heard of nor seen, a person with prion disease (post mortem obviously) that was arrtibuted to a blood exposure on compromised skin.
 
I've lost count how many nicks/cuts I've seen gutting & cutting game. Never got any infections but as was said, clean & bandage before continuing. The only cut I've seen turn ugly was with my brother stripping some birch bark for a moose call. The small puncture on the palm didn't bleed so he thought nothing of it. Blood poisoning set in quick and we had to cut short the trip because of it.
 
I don't know if there is anything special about big game blood, but I was a butcher for several years and got knicked many time times by a blade. Lots of animal blood (cow, chicken, pig, you name it) would have got in there during the cut, and afterwards soaking through the bandage. No ill effects to date :)
 
My family has cut it fair share of beef and pork. We normally try to guess who will nick themselves first, and more often than not someone does get a little cut. I don't recall anybody ever having any problems with infections and such. I doubt a game animal would be much different unless it was sick when it was shot.
 
My Dad was butchering a pig years ago, so after shooting it he grabbed the front leg. Somehow after cutting it's throat the pig kicked and put his knife right threw his hand. He got really sick, he ended up with Lockjaw, not fun. I too have cut my self, but nothing got anything like he did like he did.
 
I mastered the "how to butcher without cutting myself" routine, but I always end up punching rib cage while sawing or getting scratches that way. I ended up with a small chunk of bone fragment stuck in just below my knuckle without realizing it. A couple days later it was hurting, so I decided to pull a chunk of skin off to see what was going on. Pulled a piece of bone maybe 1x2x4 mm out.w:h: No more pain!

As to the original question, I've got deer blood in cuts and I'm doing fine.
 
I have nicked myself many times but have had 1 infection from a old moose, the rest of the time not a problem. Best advice clean and disinfect ASAP.
 
noneck180 said:
My Dad was butchering a pig years ago, so after shooting it he grabbed the front leg. Somehow after cutting it's throat the pig kicked and put his knife right threw his hand. He got really sick, he ended up with Lockjaw, not fun. I too have cut my self, but nothing got anything like he did like he did.
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Nerves.

Same with fish, we've gutted salmon and 10 minutes later you see one jumping 2 feet high.
 
ckc123 said:
Yes deer blood is considered a biohazard, and any cut should be cleaned immediatly..
The chance of having an infected animal is very low.. but you never know..
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Seriously, this is as over-hyped as asbestos. The only pprv found in north america is ONE single elk sampled from riding mountain national park. And that is based on one study for which the results were unable to be confirmed.

It's important to remember that the only human beings who have died of asbestos related mesothelioma were production workers who handled loose asbestos fiber on a daily basis.
 
noneck180 said:
My Dad was butchering a pig years ago, so after shooting it he grabbed the front leg. Somehow after cutting it's throat the pig kicked and put his knife right threw his hand. He got really sick, he ended up with Lockjaw, not fun. I too have cut my self, but nothing got anything like he did like he did.
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more likely the knife than the animal..
 
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