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<blockquote data-quote="ImBillT" data-source="post: 3094229" data-attributes="member: 117715"><p>Somewhere around Fort Collins I believe. CSU owns them. They're not on campus. IIRC the first wild case to be noted was in WY in the 1980's, but once they realized it was the same prion disease they had identified in the CSU pens, and the proximity to the pens combined with known migration routes, they pretty much figured where it came from and that it had probably been on the wild for a little over a decade. I read some pretty detailed articles about the findings a few years back. I'm sure I have some details wrong, but the gist is right, and you can dig up quite a bit of info on the results of the CSU scrapie studies and detection of CWD in the 1980's and 1990's if you do a little digging.</p><p></p><p>What gives me the most hope about CWD is that to my knowledge scrapie has never resulted in anything like BSE in Europe. Also, even with BSE, millions of infected cattle were fed to Europeans, and I believe the total number of mad cow diagnoses was in the hundreds. So perhaps if it's scrapie like, it just won't ever infect humans. Or perhaps if it's BSE like, it will only affect a few.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ImBillT, post: 3094229, member: 117715"] Somewhere around Fort Collins I believe. CSU owns them. They're not on campus. IIRC the first wild case to be noted was in WY in the 1980's, but once they realized it was the same prion disease they had identified in the CSU pens, and the proximity to the pens combined with known migration routes, they pretty much figured where it came from and that it had probably been on the wild for a little over a decade. I read some pretty detailed articles about the findings a few years back. I'm sure I have some details wrong, but the gist is right, and you can dig up quite a bit of info on the results of the CSU scrapie studies and detection of CWD in the 1980's and 1990's if you do a little digging. What gives me the most hope about CWD is that to my knowledge scrapie has never resulted in anything like BSE in Europe. Also, even with BSE, millions of infected cattle were fed to Europeans, and I believe the total number of mad cow diagnoses was in the hundreds. So perhaps if it’s scrapie like, it just won’t ever infect humans. Or perhaps if it’s BSE like, it will only affect a few. [/QUOTE]
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