Just sharing the article, make up your own minds, it's not a proven link but something to consider

https://www.yahoo.com/news/study-hunters-die-consuming-cwd-160020393.html

Animal activist not wanting you to eat meat thru scare tactics.

I thought CJD was from cannibalism. First found in cannibals of Papua New Guinea.

Is that where our fearless leader lost his uncle to cannibals?

Maybe but would you feed your family a deer you know had cwd?

The new covid scare among hunters

my aunt died of CJD she nor her husband ever deer hunted , they lived in north west Georgia since the 80s.

he was born in Scotland but came here as a small kid with his parents , so really her only exposure would have been in the UK in the late 90s when they went to visit but BSE mad cow a similar prion that can cause CJD would have been mostly under control by the late 90s by the Mad cow time line.

and even at that it didn't start till 2021

the disease starts with memory loss and hedaches.
eventually your brain just turns to mush and your boddy fails

it is almost the flip of ALS where the bodies nerves and muscles break down but the mind is trapped unable to move the body.

both randomly occur , for whatever reason , could the prion

if you wanted to go down this road of CWD has to be controlled more than it is I could make a good argument for reducing carrion eating raptor populations to 1980 populations

I've got a friend who's deer tested positive back in 2016.he kept it and ate it.so far him,his wife and family members are doing fine.not sure if I would or not if mine tested positive.

There is a risk or there would be no warning about consuming CWD-positive venison.

But, it's your family.....not mine.

I wouldn't eat it

Guy in town died of that Jacobs disease, I think it's a form of cwd

Swampwolf, do you eat deer anymore? What testing options do we have here in Georgia?

I would speculate there are thousands of CWD positive deer consumed each year in Wisconsin alone.

Yes....I'm still risking it, but not sure what I'll do WHEN a positive is found near here.

Not sure what Ga DNR will do for testing after that 1st positive...we'll see.

That "study" is a joke, and no one should be surprised the only placed it was published was Yahoo. They don't even know if they guy that died ever ate an infected deer. They just assume he did because he's a hunter and a positive deer had been found in that area, though they convenient leave out how many and if they were even wild deer. No longer does the term "study" have any legitimacy, the vast majority that you read about on the internet have a predetermined goal. In this case, it's to scare people from eating deer meat, i.e, keep people from hunting.

From what I've read (which isn't a lot) ......prion-caused diseases can take years to develop in infected critters (sometimes deer won't show any visible ailments until 5 or 6 years old, or older. Not sure about human age.

There is some info that relates CWD, CJD, Mad Cow......to Alzheimer's.

You "could" be right.

But, you "could" be wrong.

Life is nothing but decisions we make.

I'm in the same boat as your Swampwolf.

I've read that it would be rare/highly unlikely for a yearling and young deer to have the disease.

I think I will start shooting some yearling/young does for the table and donating anything older.

I done some contract work for Ga DNR this past fall collecting lymph nodes from deer. The state had a certain number of samples they wanted (especially from the Florida line counties since that positive in the FL panhandle last year).

I had to collect from 3 to 12 deer each from about 8 counties. I didn't meet all the county goals, but did manage to sample more than 30 deer.....mostly from the state line counties. DNR biologist wanted 2.5 and older deer and primarily buck, as they travel more in the fall so they have an increased chance of contracting disease. I collected several 4.5 and 5.5 year old buck samples.

Biologist said if a positive is found in GA they will collect 4 or 5 more deer from that area for testing.....then just monitor from that point forward. No wholesale killing or attempted eradication.

All samples were frozen, forwarded to biologist and then carried to UGA lab for testing. I've heard nothing since delivering last group of samples back in early February.

Just and FYI, Mad Cow was detected in England in 2023, one case, the first since 2018. The huge outbreak of Mad Cow in the UK was in the 90s when 4 million head of cattle were slaughtered and burned and over 100 humans died due to eating infected meat.

Bryce