Wyoming deer CWD positive

[dilleytech]

The odds for your safety are greatly in your favor for eating it. Like 100% odds.

[dilleytech]

There is absolutely no proof that some healthy deer that have CWD don’t live a  long full healthy life. All testing for CWD is done on dead or super sick animals, and the couple of tests/studies that were done on live animals, the live animals were destroyed upon detection. There is so much that we don’t know about this disease. Yes, it kills animals, yes it spreads, but there’s so much to learn about animals that are healthy with the disease.

Everything I'm reading both online and printed says cwd is 100% fatal  Apparently it is 15-24 months from exposure to death. So early stage animals do appear healthy.  It is something that should certainly.worry us in Washington.  We hunted an area that 10 years ago was not uncommon to see upwards.off 100 deer a day.  Now its usual to see none.  Both the bios and local ranchers in the area blame it on cwd.  Both report it was not unusual to see numerous animals obviously suffering from it on a daily basis in the area year around. There were other factors in the decline of that herd, but cwd was the final nail in the coffin. Anyone thinking it's not a big deal is very, very naive.

👍 Good post.

And I agree, it’s just a matter of time folks before it’s here. I think it’s good to be proactive and diligent about this stuff. If there’s a check station in the area and you got a deer in the back, use the check station. It’s free, let them do their thing. CWD is not good. I don’t know if you can eat it or not but I’ll tell you this, it will wreak havoc on our herds here in Washington. Does any hunter in this state want that? We have enough problems. If you bring an animal in from another state, please follow protocol, follow safety guidelines. One, just one could be the nail in the coffin for our herds in this state. Just my 

great posts both of you.

As stated, CWD has not made the jump to humans......yet. it's so ridiculously simple to get your animals tested, there's no reason not to. We don't eat an animal from cwd states until we get test results back. If they pop positive (hasn't happened yet), we are absolutely not eating it. It's very short sighted to ignore all the data out there and to act like it's not a serious issue

It’s clearly a serious issue for the animals but the data shows it’s not for humans. So what do you mean? The spreading of it is increased through us eating it? I could see that logic but if that risk is so high they should be banning the eating of CWD meat. Or buying it off people.

[SuperX]

Should those who say they won't eat it quit hunting so they aren't wasting perfectly good venison?  Seems like the ethical thing to do.

[Mtnwalker]

Boy it’s a good thing science and data never changes 

We’ve been heavily researching cancer for well over 100 years and still can’t definitively say what causes it or what it is linked to. Those of you who are saying case closed, this 100% does not and will not affect humans that’s a pretty bold statement, and you have much more faith in our scientific institutions than I do

[dilleytech]

Boy it’s a good thing science and data never changes 

We’ve been heavily researching cancer for well over 100 years and still can’t definitively say what causes it or what it is linked to. Those of you who are saying case closed, this 100% does not and will not affect humans that’s a pretty bold statement, and you have much more faith in our scientific institutions than I do

Did anyone say it “will not” affect humans in this thread? Certainly no one in the science side of things has that I have heard of anyway.

[Itsintheblood]

I’m heading back there to hunt next week. I’m just curious how long it took you to get the results back? Sounds like if you didn’t find out until you got home it might be a bit.

[Mtnwalker]

Boy it’s a good thing science and data never changes 

We’ve been heavily researching cancer for well over 100 years and still can’t definitively say what causes it or what it is linked to. Those of you who are saying case closed, this 100% does not and will not affect humans that’s a pretty bold statement, and you have much more faith in our scientific institutions than I do

Did anyone say it “will not” affect humans in this thread? Certainly no one in the science side of things has that I have heard of anyway.

“The odds for your safety are greatly in your favor for eating it. Like 100% odds.”- You

[dilleytech]

Boy it’s a good thing science and data never changes 

We’ve been heavily researching cancer for well over 100 years and still can’t definitively say what causes it or what it is linked to. Those of you who are saying case closed, this 100% does not and will not affect humans that’s a pretty bold statement, and you have much more faith in our scientific institutions than I do

Did anyone say it “will not” affect humans in this thread? Certainly no one in the science side of things has that I have heard of anyway.

“The odds for your safety are greatly in your favor for eating it. Like 100% odds.”- You

Yes, and that’s 100% correct. The percentage of people who have gotten CWD from eating deer is 0%. The odds of you not getting it could change to 99.999999% someday. We will have to see.

[ganghis]

An important point is that CWD is relatively new - maybe 40 years in the wild, and much less in a lot of areas.  There could still be an incubation period with it that hasn't been observed yet.  My attitude is that I'd personally eat a deer or elk with CWD, but that's because I'm relatively risk tolerant and already in my mid 40s.  I wouldn't serve it to my kids though, and would think twice if I were younger. 

[jamesfromseattle]

I’m heading back there to hunt next week. I’m just curious how long it took you to get the results back? Sounds like if you didn’t find out until you got home it might be a bit.

I got my (negative) test quick this year. I think it was less than a week.

[Chesapeake]

If a human eats it, is it still infectious after transiting a septic system or sewage treatment plant?

It would seem that animals eating it and then dedicating it out allows it to remain infectious.


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26636258/#:~:text=coyotes%20(Canis%20latrans)-,CWD%20prions%20remain%20infectious%20after%20passage%20through%20the%20digestive%20system,Prion.


Which contradicts what is said in this article.

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2021/dec/09/cwd-expert-wolves-hunters-can-help-minimize-spread/#:~:text=Wolves%20and%20other%20canines%20are,easy%20targets%2C”%20she%20said.

[Itsintheblood]

I’m heading back there to hunt next week. I’m just curious how long it took you to get the results back? Sounds like if you didn’t find out until you got home it might be a bit.

I got my (negative) test quick this year. I think it was less than a week.

Thanks for letting me know.

[steeleywhopper]

I’m heading back there to hunt next week. I’m just curious how long it took you to get the results back? Sounds like if you didn’t find out until you got home it might be a bit.

I believe it was 5 or 6 days to get results.

[emac]

So if you are hunting another state and bring the meat back to Washington you have to de bone it and make sure there is no brain or anything on the skull cap correct.  If everyone was worried about CWD why are you allowed to keep the meat and transport back to Washington?  Do the bones and the brain material have the CWD in them and not the meat?  How many people that hunt out of state actually get there deer tested?  I guess I am just wondering after all that can CWD be transmitted through the meat?

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[92xj]

The bones and head material are discarded, and the meat is placed in your freezer to eat.  The discarding of body parts is the problem. If the deer is tested and comes back positive, you know where that meat is located (your freezer) and it can be properly disposed of.  Once that test comes back positive after a week or so, the bones laying in the yard/woods/trash pile/ditch, have already spread CWD to the ground/animals/whatever.