04-30-2003, 04:52 PM
Lou I'm glad your interested in CWD. I understood the rabies comment and agree but their is other signs that indicate a infected animal. The foaming or saliva running out is something easily observable.
In the past couple of years the nobel prize has been give on research about prions. Prions are what turns the proteins in the brain and give it the spong form.
The disease was thought to originate from a research facility in Colorado. The scientists had deer and sheep, which were thought to had Scrapie, (sheeps version of CWD or TSE) which was never proven but scientist have shown that CWD can mutate like Mad cows disease in human brain tissue.
This is main reason everybody is getting on the ball and trying to learn why and how this disease kills deer and elk. Mule deer aren't infected as fast as white tails so if you might want to be carefull with any deer killed. I know after countless hours of research on CWD I'm taking some safety precautions like gloves or leting the camp gutter do the work.
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In the past couple of years the nobel prize has been give on research about prions. Prions are what turns the proteins in the brain and give it the spong form.
The disease was thought to originate from a research facility in Colorado. The scientists had deer and sheep, which were thought to had Scrapie, (sheeps version of CWD or TSE) which was never proven but scientist have shown that CWD can mutate like Mad cows disease in human brain tissue.
This is main reason everybody is getting on the ball and trying to learn why and how this disease kills deer and elk. Mule deer aren't infected as fast as white tails so if you might want to be carefull with any deer killed. I know after countless hours of research on CWD I'm taking some safety precautions like gloves or leting the camp gutter do the work.
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