Posted on Feb 13, 2019
Experts Warn Fatal ‘Zombie’ Deer Disease Could Spread To Humans
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What is most disturbing to me in this article is that the disease can be transmitted to primates that eat (or have been fed) meat from infected animals.
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SGT Mary G.
LTC (Join to see) - Truly. A chemist friend used to work at a place in summer while in college, that inspects cattle on the way to slaughter. They test for illness and disease. I asked if they ever tested for "mad cow" (including in wildlife). She said they were able to. That means that if people do want to test what they hunt, it is possible.
The U.S. has never routinely tested cattle or any source of meat, not even during the "mad cow" problem in England at the turn of the century. Of course what else is disturbing is that during times of drought, hard winters, anything that interferes with the food sources of wild life . . . some wildlife become scavengers of whatever they find on the ground that has died. It is little different than feeding cows with food that was made from cows (or any other cannibalism) which those who remember the "mad cow" problem probably remember is believed to develop in any species in the same way . . . and in whatever or whomever eats infected meat.
The U.S. has never routinely tested cattle or any source of meat, not even during the "mad cow" problem in England at the turn of the century. Of course what else is disturbing is that during times of drought, hard winters, anything that interferes with the food sources of wild life . . . some wildlife become scavengers of whatever they find on the ground that has died. It is little different than feeding cows with food that was made from cows (or any other cannibalism) which those who remember the "mad cow" problem probably remember is believed to develop in any species in the same way . . . and in whatever or whomever eats infected meat.
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