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DC:
Do we know if any deer have a natural immunity? If so, maybe letting mom nature take care of it is the way to go. It might hurt but you'd have a healthier population. If they do find a cure chances are it will be an oral vaccine that would have to be administered to the deer population for the rest of time. You would never be confident that your venison was safe. It's a tough call.

JW_Halverson:

--- Quote from: DC on February 26, 2019, 04:06:13 pm ---Do we know if any deer have a natural immunity? If so, maybe letting mom nature take care of it is the way to go. It might hurt but you'd have a healthier population. If they do find a cure chances are it will be an oral vaccine that would have to be administered to the deer population for the rest of time. You would never be confident that your venison was safe. It's a tough call.

--- End quote ---

There is no immunity because the immune system is never involved in the deal. This is from a protein called a prion that is transmitted. Vaccines won't work either. It operates, in some ways, more like a poison or toxin in the environment.

DC:
Not good, guess we'll have to learn to hunt pork

jimmi the sammi:
I attended a meeting sponsored by our state department of Game and Fish last night.  According to the #1 state biologist, there are no studies that can replicate the "results" stated in the video posted by the Pennsylvania sportsmens organization.

I kill deer every year in one of the counties that has the highest rates of CWD in the region.  Taking care to observe any prospective meat candidate, I have not had any animal that I have killed tested to date.  Gambling?  Possibly but I'll take my chances.

sleek:
What happens if you eat the meat? Is the meat going to be repulsive? How would you know its infected?

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