Ok I undeestand that. However look at how many deer PA has look at the small amount of deer they found with it. It was stated they are checking road kills and hunter harvested deer and only found 22 animals wih it. That is a small amount compared to the deer population of the state which I think is over1 million deer. The disease is supposed to be spread through salia and bodly fluids. This why I believe that scavengers are spreading the didease more than the deer themselves. The first thing birds take from a road kill is the eyes which are full of fluid and who knows how far those birds will travel after that.
I don't know if the U.S. states are still doing culls or what approach they are taking now. All I no is that a lot of healthy deer have been killed to find a very few diseased ones. Hvae the number of infected deer grown or are the numbers staying the same. If they are not increasing it seems piontless to keep worrying so much and spending all this money on it. Poachers are killing more of our deer than CWD and there are not enough funds to fight them. The way they monitor this disease is like having the police record all traffic violations but never do anything to stop them. This seems to be a good project to employ government biologists but does little for the problem. How long have we known of CWD and what has really been gained in the battle against it. To me we are gaining nothing as the disease is still on the move.
I don't know if any one has ever thought of this but could our radical antihunting groups be spreading it around. Now this sounds stupid but think how hard would it be for them to take a road kill from one area to another. How would this work in their favor lets look at it. The deer is infected so the prions are now in the new area just happens this area allows baiting of deer. Now they start a new campaign to ban baiting it is already in effect isn't it. We as hunters are helping them with their job because we constantly bicker about different hunting styles.
Back to the topic the disease is here how bad is it really. Should we continue this approach that appears to be doing little or take this money and fight bigger problems.
I know there are concerns of people getting a mutation of this disease. However I think we are at a far higher risk of catching Lyme from our quarry than a mutation of CWD.