CWD Now can Infect Humans.

[Bob Wright]

It's exceedingly rare to get the disease and get it from animals that appear healthy in every way. Now if a person were to make physical contact or decide to eat a zombie, that's on them.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease/sympto

 

[Ol' Red]

I forget. Some kinda of spotted whatchamacallit disease. I guess after a good hard freeze of a week or longer the weakened cottontails die off.

WE wait for a good deep freeze to get rid of the fleas also. They, the fleas, carry bubonic plague here in Wyoming.

 

[Mike Matteson]

Is it bad I subscribe to that theory regarding booze

That's kind of like taking up reading about the evil of drinking and quite reading.

 

[chav0_12]

Case report: Two clusters of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease cases within 1 year in West Michigan

Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare, rapidly progressive, and uniformly fatal neurodegenerative disease. The reported incidence of CJD is 1 to 2 per million people worldwide annually, with fewer than 1,000 cases in the United States per ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

This is a study that seems to tell more of the story as to why this may be an anomaly and garner more attention. Having read this, I do believe there is more to the story and if all of these cases in a relatively short time and close geographic location have indeed consumed CWD positive deer meat there might really be some concern. If we were to start hearing about it from younger hunters then there might be a reason to be worried as I believe that was the reason Mad Cow disease was a problem. I can't really remember all of the specifics about all of this. I did write a pretty lengthy paper on it in 2006 though.

 

[xsn10s]

WE wait for a good deep freeze to get rid of the fleas also. They, the fleas, carry bubonic plague here in Wyoming.

Yeah the plague is near me south of Boise. So it could be here too.

 

[Mike Matteson]

It hasn't been found yet in Oregon. Which is where I will hunt. Hopefully it won't be.

Don't worry, it will get there.

 

[xsn10s]

It's exceedingly rare to get the disease and get it from animals that appear healthy in every way. Now if a person were to make physical contact or decide to eat a zombie, that's on them.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease/sympto

That's the way I'd deal with it Bob. Avoid sick looking animals and be aware of dense infected areas.

 

[xsn10s]

Don't worry, it will get there.

I'm not worried. I'd rather be aware of my surroundings than ignorant.

 

[bluedog69]

I just remembered something. My cousin from northern IL used to come to MO to deer hunt. He also went to a friends in WI to deer hunt.
WI had CWD bad. If he was lucky he would see a few deer every day in MO. He would see upwards of 150 to 200 a day in WI go by his stand.
I have heard WI hunters say that they decimated their herd for no reason. Many of us are speculating about hot pocket areas and what to do if it gets to me. I know that for about 25 years in WI many have just continued to hunt and carry on with their life with no change.