i read some of madcows post and can only say

the information he selected was to get HIS point across

i live in wyoming and we hunt with it in our back yard there fore i have learned alot about it

if it were able to transmit to cows or humans it would have shown up by now
and would also be unable to hide

cows deer and elk run together on the same range here year around
cwd has been here since the early 70s
there is still not a case of either cwd in cows(here in wyoming) or humans

so in 30 or so years with millions of contacts (cow/deer)(human/deer)there still is not a case speculative or documented

the odds are so great i am not going to loose any sleep over it no matter what madcows info says