Just got a call from TWRA. Deer I killed 2 weeks ago tested positive. Guess I will kill another one for the freezer.
CWD POSITIVE
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That sucks,what do you do with meat till the test comes back?
cecil30-30
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Man that sucks. I'm just dont know what I'll do when it makes its way over here. I guess as long as I could test it I'd be fine.
I picked it up from the processor yesterday. Got another one at processor right now. I will chunk this one.
Omega
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Already in the CWD zone?
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Keep in mind the current tests are disease monitoring tests, not food safety tests. A negative test doesn't mean there are no CWD prions in the meat unfortunately.
If it were me (but it's not) I'd eat it anyway. People been eating infected deer for years, they/we just haven't known it and nobody's got sick as of yet.
Haywood Co. Been in cwd zone since 2nd year
Hang tight. It's coming.
sharpshooter
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That sucks, hope the other one is negative for ya.
Omega
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Ah, so they doing the replacement buck and processor credit still?
double browtine
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I totally agree 100%! I think it is more of a scare tactic to discourage people from hunting. Call me crazy but I don't think it's much different than EHD. They both kill deer. Prions are not totally understood. Probably created in a lab like the China virus! If you believed everything the CDC has said about c19, then you probably believe this one too.
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wsm
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Sorry to hear this .
double browtine
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Sorry for your hard work in harvesting a deer an then having to throw it out.
But I'd bet you have eaten one with it in the past before testing started.
These prions came from sheep. Scrapie is a prion disease in sheep that's been around for many years. There was some studies of sheep scrapie out west years ago. After the testing was over some dumbass put elk in the same pens the sheep had been in. Guess what happened? It jumped species and started affecting elk and deer.
itll jump to humans eventuall. That's the nature of nature. I'm not too worried about it myself. While I'm sure it'll happen the odds on being the first human infected are infinitely small. Much more chance being struck by lightening while hunting.
CWD will be all over TN shortly. TWRA may slow it but won't stop it. It'll not mean the end of deer hunting but it might mean the end of some deer hunters. CWD kills deer but not wholesale like EHD. It'll thin the herd but eventually some deer will develop resistance.
the fear factor will stop some from hunting and eating deer. SAD....I'm gonna kill deer, test deer, and not knowingly eat know positives but it's not going to stop my hunting. Got more things to worry about than CWD....
Squirle hunter
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I think it's been here a lot longer than they let on it's probably all over the state just cook it all the way thru don't think much survives past 140 degrees anyway
Because it is a Prion it takes extremely High temperatures to kill. 140* works for bacteria not Prions.
Takes thousands of degrees to kill the prions. Test and eat if negative. Eat if positive chances of problems are in the billions.
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I know quite a bit about prions. Unfortunately, CWD is quite real and has been around for much longer than anyone realizes.I totally agree 100%! I think it is more of a scare tactic to discourage people from hunting. Call me crazy but I don't think it's much different than EHD. They both kill deer. Prions are not totally understood. Probably created in a lab like the China virus! If you believed everything the CDC has said about c19, then you probably believe this one too.
Fortunately, there has never been a documented case of transmission to humans, and Wisconsin has been neck deep in it for decades.
Probably safe to eat the meat (but not organs), but also probably best to play it safe.
I wonder about this myself. And other states don't seem to be on the same page. I hunt in Mississippi as well as Tennessee and nobody down there ever mentions it. I don't even know if they test. I've never heard of it.
