Epidemiology 101.
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Epidemiology 101.
What's amazing to me is they are so worried about bringing deer parts into the state but continue to allow the number one cause of CWD, deer farms.
Sounds like quite the hassle. Seems it would be far easier to bring the deer to a local in state processor.
As if i needed one more reason to stay out of NY.
Yeah but so much good land there from what I can tell.
Not a hunter. The game commission can get bent
that is a joke, considering skeletal muscle and fat is infectious from cwd. my suggestion to anyone would be, do your own processing of your cervid. this old study always put these pesky tse prions in perspective for me.
*** Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease to a chimpanzee by electrodes contaminated during neurosurgery ***
Gibbs CJ Jr, Asher DM, Kobrine A, Amyx HL, Sulima MP, Gajdusek DC.
Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892. Stereotactic multicontact electrodes used to probe the cerebral cortex of a middle aged woman with progressive dementia were previously implicated in the accidental transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) to two younger patients. The diagnoses of CJD have been confirmed for all three cases. More than two years after their last use in humans, after three cleanings and repeated sterilisation in ethanol and formaldehyde vapour, the electrodes were implanted in the cortex of a chimpanzee. Eighteen months later the animal became ill with CJD. This finding serves to re-emphasise the potential danger posed by reuse of instruments contaminated with the agents of spongiform encephalopathies, even after scrupulous attempts to clean them.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract
kind regards, terry
Why do you want to eat meat that might have these prions in it?