Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago‘Zombie deer disease’ epidemic spreads in Yellowstone as scientists raise fears it may jump to humanswww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square137fedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down11cross-posted to: news@beehaw.org
arrow-up1158arrow-down1external-link‘Zombie deer disease’ epidemic spreads in Yellowstone as scientists raise fears it may jump to humanswww.theguardian.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square137fedilinkcross-posted to: news@beehaw.org
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·9 months agoMoreover, there’s no expectation that a prion disease like CWD can ever spread from person to (non-cannibal) person
minus-square🐑🇸 🇭 🇪 🇪 🇵 🇱 🇪🐑@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·9 months agoIt can however totally spread from deer to person if we decide to eat it. So basically treat it like mad cow disease and don’t eat meat from dubious sources. Got it
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·9 months ago and don’t eat meat from dubious sources. Have you ever actually seen the inside of a factory farm? Things don’t get more “dubious” than that.
minus-squarethe post of tom joad@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down2·9 months agoWell im with you on how gross factory kill floors are but I’m still recklessly confident that one thing i won’t find in there is a deer.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·9 months agoSounds to me like venison is out of the picture in general right now. Too bad, venison is the best chili meat IMO.
minus-squareSlowy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoJust submit your deer for testing and if it comes back clean you can safely eat it, easy.
minus-squaregirlfreddy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·9 months agoGet the hunter or butcher to yank the lymph nodes and have them tested. For the most part tho hunters don’t harvest visibly sick animals … for good reason.
minus-squareCosmicomical@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·9 months agoSo you are saying that the people infected with the zombie disease are all going to be cannibals? Somehow this doesn’t sound like a good news.
minus-squareMatch!!@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 months agoShould be fine unless the protein in question is found in saliva – Oh. Oh no
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·9 months agoIt’s good news for anyone who likes the taste of brains.
Moreover, there’s no expectation that a prion disease like CWD can ever spread from person to (non-cannibal) person
It can however totally spread from deer to person if we decide to eat it.
So basically treat it like mad cow disease and don’t eat meat from dubious sources. Got it
Have you ever actually seen the inside of a factory farm? Things don’t get more “dubious” than that.
Well im with you on how gross factory kill floors are but I’m still recklessly confident that one thing i won’t find in there is a deer.
Sounds to me like venison is out of the picture in general right now.
Too bad, venison is the best chili meat IMO.
Just submit your deer for testing and if it comes back clean you can safely eat it, easy.
Get the hunter or butcher to yank the lymph nodes and have them tested.
For the most part tho hunters don’t harvest visibly sick animals … for good reason.
So you are saying that the people infected with the zombie disease are all going to be cannibals? Somehow this doesn’t sound like a good news.
Should be fine unless the protein in question is found in saliva – Oh. Oh no
It’s good news for anyone who likes the taste of brains.