Study: Hunters Die After Consuming CWD-Infected Venison

Not good news for those of us who hunt and consume deer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...cted-venison/ar-BB1lNvEl?ocid=nl_article_link

It might have occurred. I'll wait and see before I get too worried.

Woodwright said:

Not good news for those of us who hunt and consume deer.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...cted-venison/ar-BB1lNvEl?ocid=nl_article_link

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In 2022, a 72-year-old man with a history of consuming meat from a CWD-infected deer population presented with rapid-onset confusion and aggression.
I didn't know Joe liked venison. Explains everything
All kidding aside, we need to make sure people, including scientists, are not aiming to take away our deer hunting rights.

It’s a war on meat in general.

I read the article and it was full of assumptions, exaggerations, and outright fallacies.

The most ridiculous one was stated several times and I'm not quoting it exactly but it was said that when one animal in the "herd" is infected, all are infected. Thats false on any level of definition of "herd". If it were that virulent and widespread deer would be on the verge of extinction.

Anti hunting propaganda.

Sam squanch said:

Anti hunting propaganda.

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Yup, until it’s a proven fact, and/or becomes more wide spread, I’m not buying it.

As it is now, if anyone wants to be concerned about meat, they should look at all the chemicals listed on tags attached to bags of feed for beef, chickens and pork. That doesn’t include all the injections they get.

The fear mongering in general, as well as the war on meat continues. But alas, there’s already companies out there that sell home test kits for CWD.

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a type of “transmissible spongiform encephalopathy” (TSE). These diseases result from infection with an abnormal form of protein known as a prion. Mad cow disease and Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (CJD) in humans are other examples. Diseases that originate with animals but get passed to humans are described as “zoonotic.”

In rare cases, TSEs can occur spontaneously… certain proteins in the body spontaneously transform into prions. TSEs can also be hereditary. What concerns us here is transmission from infected individuals, generally due to exposure to infected tissue or infected body fluids, especially brain or spinal cord tissue or cerebrospinal fluid.

The disease is real, but the media often sensationalize things. I saw and read the article linked above several days ago. Bear in mind, this is a synopsis and interpretation written up for a popular magazine. The original article in the neurology journal presents the facts. I thought they provided credible evidence of possible cross-species transmission, but even the authors indicated it is a suggestion, and not proof.

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a division of the NIH, has a very good page with general information on TSEs. I’m not able to post a direct link with the device I am using right now, but you can find it with a simple Google search using “NINDS spongiform encepalopathies” as a search term. It is factual, informative, and easy to read, and I would recommend it if you are interested in this sort of thing.

TSEs are real, and they are not to be “blown off” or trifled with. I have seen several cases in people, and it’s ugly. However, TSEs are rare, and while the research is showing a suggestion of transmission from deer to people, I don’t see proof yet. I think it’s a good idea to keep yourself informed (via credible sources…) and to use common sense, but there is no need to panic.

Best regards,

Notchy Bob

Indeed, NB, CWD is factual but as of now, not one credible bit of evidence has been brought forward to substantiate it has caused deaths in humans from consuming the meat. It might happen but until it does, I’m not buying the fear mongering.

I’m also of the opinion that if it does happen that it was not by accident. Gates has already genetically modified mosquitoes and released them.

At best, it is an association. CJD can take decades to present, so no way to really determine the source.

A different opinion:

https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/hunters-die-eating-cwd-venison/

I would be more worried about the meat being imported in to this country.

I read a bunch of the different reports, and it appeared to be more poor jounalism than an actual zoonitic case.
CWD and BSE are both from prions, but the CDC lists them apart. From what I read, CWD, which is very very similar to a very old disease called scrappy (scrape-EEE) in sheep and may be just that, has not been found to "jump" from an infected animal to a human. BSE aka Mad Cow disease HAS been found to jump to humans, and the deer in this article are quite close to cattle areas where there is cattle feed provided to the cattle. To me it sounded more like IF the hunters did get it from the deer..., it was BSE which the deer got from the cows and not CWD, and without much of any science done, folks ASSUMED it was CWD and not BSE. I admit, however, that I may have misunderstood, and perhaps CWD and BSE are from the same cause...

LD

ETipp said:

Yup, until it’s a proven fact, and/or becomes more wide spread, I’m not buying it.

As it is now, if anyone wants to be concerned about meat, they should look at all the chemicals listed on tags attached to bags of feed for beef, chickens and pork. That doesn’t include all the injections they get.

The fear mongering in general, as well as the war on meat continues. But alas, there’s already companies out there that sell home test kits for CWD.

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I believe these home CWD kits about as much as I believed the home Covid test. It’s all just a bunch of fear mongering. It’s like when they said that you will die if you eat wild hog. I’ve been eating them for years and I’m still here.

Laying the foundation to more strictly limit (and eventually outlaw) hunting, for Public Safety reasons, of course.
That’s just my “conspiracy theory” opinion.

Opinion based article desperately trying to connect dots.

Will I feed infected meat to my kids? Probably not. Will I eat it myself? Absolutely

Anti-hunting, anti-meat fear mongering. I’d be more worried if MSM said venison was safe to eat.

CWD is absolutely a big deal for our deer herds. It appears the prion can survive in soil for many years and can continue to infect deer. It is always fatal to deer. There is a very good reason to try to control it just for that alone. This fear mongering does not help.

pilot said:

CWD is absolutely a big deal for our deer herds. It appears the prion can survive in soil for many years and can continue to infect deer. It is always fatal to deer. There is a very good reason to try to control it just for that alone. This fear mongering does not help.

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I don’t deny that CWD exists. We have it in the very northern part of Louisiana, but I think that it’s being blown out of proportion to further the anti hunting and anti meat eating agendas.

Chmachin said:

I don’t deny that CWD exists. We have it in the very northern part of Louisiana, but I think that it’s being blown out of proportion to further the anti hunting and anti meat eating agendas.

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I agree, but in the end, there may be no more deer.