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<blockquote data-quote="ImBillT" data-source="post: 3094027" data-attributes="member: 117715"><p>Plenty of deer have died <strong>OF </strong>CWD. The fact that most of the positive tests come from hunter killed, road killed, or euthanized deer does not change the fact that CWD isn't survivable. It is a valid point to make in terms of population management. If it's such a slow killer that most deer are killed by hunters or old age first, then it wouldn't have the same population impact that a faster killer would. There are deer herds in CO, WY, and probably that have had significant population declines as a result of CWD. Those areas are mostly the areas where CWD first showed up. Those herds are likely to continue declining.</p><p></p><p>Back to CWD being "new", and government and aliens. Government most likely did, sort of, make it. It was first identified when CSU kept having their deer waste and <strong>DIE</strong>, of an unknown affliction. Those deer were kept in pens that had formerly been used to experiment with scrapie infected sheep. That close contact between the deer and the infected sheep likely resulted in a misfolded scrapie prion causing a deer prion to misfold, and this CWD came into being. A new disease. Yet more evidence that it likely came from the CSU sheep pens is the fact that scrapie and CWD are the only two prion diseases I'm aware of that are so easily transmitted from animal to animal. In the case of "mad cow" it was transmitted from cow to cow because in Europe they added rendered cattle to commercial cattle feed. If CWD had been here since the dawn of deer, the percent of deer that are infected in a given zone would not steadily increase for decades.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ImBillT, post: 3094027, member: 117715"] Plenty of deer have died [B]OF [/B]CWD. The fact that most of the positive tests come from hunter killed, road killed, or euthanized deer does not change the fact that CWD isn't survivable. It is a valid point to make in terms of population management. If it's such a slow killer that most deer are killed by hunters or old age first, then it wouldn't have the same population impact that a faster killer would. There are deer herds in CO, WY, and probably that have had significant population declines as a result of CWD. Those areas are mostly the areas where CWD first showed up. Those herds are likely to continue declining. Back to CWD being "new", and government and aliens. Government most likely did, sort of, make it. It was first identified when CSU kept having their deer waste and [B]DIE[/B], of an unknown affliction. Those deer were kept in pens that had formerly been used to experiment with scrapie infected sheep. That close contact between the deer and the infected sheep likely resulted in a misfolded scrapie prion causing a deer prion to misfold, and this CWD came into being. A new disease. Yet more evidence that it likely came from the CSU sheep pens is the fact that scrapie and CWD are the only two prion diseases I'm aware of that are so easily transmitted from animal to animal. In the case of "mad cow" it was transmitted from cow to cow because in Europe they added rendered cattle to commercial cattle feed. If CWD had been here since the dawn of deer, the percent of deer that are infected in a given zone would not steadily increase for decades. [/QUOTE]
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