((( cwd )))

[white eagle]

This past hunting season in Wisconsin I shot a doe that tested positive for CWD.
Would you all throw away the meat or treat with no concerns?
This is the first time that a deer from our area has tested positive or
the first deer from my hunting grounds to be more precise

[358429]

Got to test it again

[white eagle]

not sure how that can happen?

[cwtebay]

There is good evidence that as long as you stay away from the brain / spinal cord and larger peripheral nerves that the risk is nearly non-existent. But having known someone who died of vCJD.....I don't know I could feed it to my family.
As an aside - testing methods vary and "suspects" are oftentimes merely insufficient samples or samples other than the obex that was submitted (rabies is the same, the sample is deemed positive if the entire brain is not present, even if the presented sample is 99% there and negative - the stakes are just too high).

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[bisleyfan41]

Throw it away. It's just a deer. Go shoot another. No way I'd chance it.

[slownsteady22]

Did it appear to be sick? Did you buy chance keep liver or heart( if it wasn't destroyed by the shot)?

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[BMW Rider]

Throw it away. It's just a deer. Go shoot another. No way I'd chance it.

This.

[white eagle]

other than being shot it appeared normal
did not save any organs

[Beagle333]

I do hate to waste meat...... but I'd be scared to eat it. I lost a close friend/coworker/hunting-fishing buddy to VCJD and it was ugly.

[dverna]

I do not trust “the science and the data”. If in doubt, throw it out.

I would stage it on my 200 yard range for coyote bait.

[Budzilla 19]

This is the safest way to be sure! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ bait those ‘yotes with it!!! As always, just my .02

[megasupermagnum]

0 people have ever contracted CWD. That includes over 200 people who ate meat from a deer that later tested positive for CWD.

Do with that information what you will.

[rancher1913]

0 people have ever contracted CWD. That includes over 200 people who ate meat from a deer that later tested positive for CWD.

Do with that information what you will.

and zero people have died from mad cow, the reason is,is its called Jacobs Creutzfeldt disease in humans not mad cow.

the big problem with your statement is that it can take years to manifest itself so those people that ate the deer with cwd could stil die from it.

[rockrat]

I would not eat it, but thats just me. Why take a chance? vCJD might take decades to develop, kind of like Shingles.
Call me suspicious, but it seems like Department of wildlife divisions in each state minimize any risk. If they were to come out and say that you have a chance of getting VCJD from an infected deer, what do you thing license sales would do?? There would go their funding and probably 90% of employees jobs would disappear.

[cwtebay]

[QUOTE=megasupermagnum;5319702]0 people have ever contracted CWD. That includes over 200 people who ate meat from a deer that later tested positive for CWD.

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Research Gajdusek. ' nuff said

[Tripplebeards]

Wonder how many deer I’ve ate that had it?

[kootne]

In our area deer carcasses are supposed to disposed in a dumpster at the landfill, when it is full they bury them. The idea is to reduce spread by not dumping carcasses in an uncontrolled manner. The prions that cause cwd are just about bullet proof for a long time. Evidently they survive the digestive tract and several years on the ground. They show up in the new growth of plant material so can potentially be transmitted when a deer grazes in where they are present long after they are deposited.

[white eagle]

Prions are radioactive for deer
yes they stay in the ground and are contained in plants
as far as eating them unknown its hard to say for sure how many have actually been consumed but
since the introduction of CWD into our state I have had all deer I harvest tested and this is the first time I got a positive test result
its a shame and a crime to me that this happened makes me wonder about hunting deer anymore

[John McCorkle]

Prions are radioactive for deer
yes they stay in the ground and are contained in plants
as far as eating them unknown its hard to say for sure how many have actually been consumed but
since the introduction of CWD into our state I have had all deer I harvest tested and this is the first time I got a positive test result
its a shame and a crime to me that this happened makes me wonder about hunting deer anymore

On this, what are the effects on deer population in areas that have had it for several years now? Is there a way to stop it's spread or anything that gives us hope that this will ever be a manageable disease?

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[megasupermagnum]

and zero people have died from mad cow, the reason is,is its called Jacobs Creutzfeldt disease in humans not mad cow.

the big problem with your statement is that it can take years to manifest itself so those people that ate the deer with cwd could stil die from it.

I'll repeat again. ZERO people have ever contracted CDW in any form whatsoever. CWD does NOT cause vCJD. It is a fact, you can find this info everywhere. That includes 200 people in 2005 who for certain ate meat from a CWD deer.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...at/2926840002/