Can you eat CWD deer

[cornshank]

CDW and EHD are very different diseases. CDW is what's known as mad cow disease in deer and other covids. EHD is hemoragic disease. Blue tongue! Caused by midges getting into their noses. Seen it wipe out deer herd in couple of weeks. CDW is neurological disease. Always fatal. Make sure you don't eat anything that has come into contact with brain matter or spinal fluids. If the deer looks poor and confused best shoot it and let coyotes do their thing.

What do, you do if the hunter looks poor and confused?

 

[RidgeTop]

I would not.
Put some meat down for the dog and see what happens.

 

[FrogFire7]

What if the hunter looks poor and confused ?

Hey, I resemble that!

 

[cornshank]

Hey, I resemble that!

Same here!

 

[Coyote Shadow Tracker]

Wasn't there an issue years ago with "Mad Cow Disease" and humans could catch it and would effect the brain?

 

[manitou]

CDW and EHD are very different diseases. CDW is what's known as mad cow disease in deer and other covids. EHD is hemoragic disease. Blue tongue! Caused by midges getting into their noses. Seen it wipe out deer herd in couple of weeks. CDW is neurological disease. Always fatal. Make sure you don't eat anything that has come into contact with brain matter or spinal fluids. If the deer looks poor and confused best shoot it and let coyotes do their thing.

Actually, CWD is a prion (twisted) that is nearly impossible to neutralize. It is not a living organism in and of itself. It takes excess of 1800 degrees to kill it. Disinfectant won't kill it, chlorox won't kill it. It can be passed on to soil from urine or decaying deer and then transfer in growing plants at the site, so leaving it for coyotes and decay will not stop possible spread through other vectors mentioned.
The best way to deal with an infected carcass is to bury it deep enough as to not be uncovered or in a landfill that will bury it... but not a practical task for most folks.

It is NOT mad cow disease, but is in the family of MCD and Creutchfeld Jacob's disease, which are also misformed prions... one in bovines, the other is found in humans (CJD).

CWD is transmitted from animal to animal contact, ie: touching noses, etc or ingestion.

Blue tongue and other EHD (epizootic hemorrhagic disease) is tansmitted from biting midges. It is theorized that bucks seem to be more susceptible due to the thin skin on developing antlers with easy access to their bloodstream beneath the velvet.

 

[manitou]

Wasn't there an issue years ago with "Mad Cow Disease" and humans could catch it and would effect the brain?

Yes. A big outbreak in Britain in the 90s. 143000 cattle infected. Mass extermination.
Has since been found in isolated cases in Japan and several of the United States.

 

[Chuckrub]

Wasn't there an issue years ago with "Mad Cow Disease" and humans could catch it and would effect the brain?

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/mad-cow-disease-in-humans

 

[manitou]

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/mad-cow-disease-in-humans

Well, I blew that spelling all to heck!

 

[Rosebud]

What if the hunter looks poor and confused ?

See what he has in his thermos.

 

[Kelljp]

Wasn't there an issue years ago with "Mad Cow Disease" and humans could catch it and would effect the brain?

Start feeding it to the Senate and Congress then !

 

[billflangjr813]

What do, you do if the hunter looks poor and confused?

Shoot it to !! LOL

 

[ntsqd]

What makes you think that they aren't already infected?

Start feeding it to the Senate and Congress then !

 

[Allen Lone wolf]

Washington must have a full blown epidemic!