ORIGINAL: game4lunch
What's your point atlasman?
My point is that the article shows a possible link to infective prions of CWD being in muscle tissue. This is new information in the world of CWD......and if it is true will effect how they advise cautious handling of game in certain if not all areas.......until now organs and cns tissue were their focus.
I hope this is not another overreaction to an uncertain problem.
What is the "overreaction"?.........and what were the others that lead to your "another" label?
Let me first say that it appears to me that no testing of any kind should be done to lab mice or rats.
And let me reply by saying you should learn more about transgenic mice before dismissing them as viable research.
"No known transfer of the disease has ever been found in humans." This is a powerfull statement.
And until this information came out the above quote was always accompanied by "No prions have ever been found in skeletal muscle tissue".......ooops. It's a much better strategy to stay informed and not hang your hat on one statement and plug your ears to anything else because it might say something you don't want to hear. I don't want CWD to be a danger to humans as much as anyone in the world........but I would rather be informed and aware about such a dynamic topic.
Overreaction causes stupid acts to take place.
I'm still confused as to what you see as an "overreaction"......discussing an article in a science journal is over reacting?? I haven't seen anyone here make any rash statements or jump to any conclusions.
So I figure, so long as I'm not in the deer family . . .
I hope that works out for ya.
Here's the mostimportant thing, infected animals are easy to see and detect.
A lot of people thought that about AIDS too........now they are all dead.
Deer don't show the signs you are speaking of until the disease is advanced........the incubation period is a mystery and they don't have any idea when or how infective the deer are at various stages of the disease.
What scares me the most, is overreacting to an unknown.
What scares me is that you hunt in places where sick deer are seen regularly and you trust your "eye" for a sick animal to be your guide. You do know that a sick animal doesn't have to be in advanced state of disease to be infective right?