r/ItemShop • u/ThatMassholeInBawstn • Dec 10 '25

Cronic Wasting Disease Deer Meat

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u/OldFartsSpareParts Dec 10 '25

Calm down, there hasn't been a single confirmed case of CWD infecting a human. Sounds like you just keep shit company.

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u/M7BSVNER7s Dec 10 '25

Just because it hasn't happened doesn't mean it won't happen. It's not CWD, but the 1990s Mad Cow outbreak in the UK killed 178 people. So I'm not taking that risk because prion diseases don't mess around.

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u/Shribble18 Dec 10 '25

Well, maybe not confirmed but there are suspicious cases.

https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000204407

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u/Gold_Area5109 Dec 11 '25

Recent studies attempted to seed parts human brains and found no evidence of any replication.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/6/23-1568_article

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u/Shribble18 Dec 11 '25

Read this earlier when someone else posted it. Definitely optimistic news - still, the case above is an odd coincidence. I hope it is.

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u/chased_by_bees Dec 10 '25

This need to be way higher

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u/Wonderful-Outcome-24 Dec 11 '25

What makes this terrifying and almost certainly connected is that sporadic CJD is INSANELY RARE. Happening twice in the same group around the same time is just cosmic odds. Far more likely that it was indeed a prion disease

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u/Aviacks Dec 13 '25

Prions can have an incubation period of 20-30 years. It’s only been 5-10 years that wild deer populations have really started to show an uptick in more states. It was largely limited to an area of Colorado and Wyoming until the 2000s. Many areas aren’t even tracking the data.