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<blockquote data-quote="JTComfort" data-source="post: 3097035" data-attributes="member: 103514"><p>Correct. The"link" that CWD shares with these other diseases is that they are caused by prions that live inside the brain and spinal nerve tissue and fluid. </p><p></p><p>BSE/MadCow is transmittable to humans from bovines from consumption of animal. CWD had not made that jump to humans. Cases of BSE are rarely reported, in part because in US we slaughter steers so early (at approx 18 months) that they haven't reached an age where symptoms present. So far, CWD had not made that jump to humans.</p><p></p><p>Prions are not killed by the heat delivered by common cooking methods - they are proteins - so cows with symptoms are destroyed. There is concern about CWD prions remaining in the food chain and that potential for the prion disease to jump species is more likely to be seen in scavengers and predators like coyotes first. </p><p></p><p>VA's urban archery program requires submission of harvested deer heads for sampling and testing. In addition to being detected in several adjacent counties over the last few years, CWD was detected in deer in Fairfax County last year from a deer outside the archery program. The rapid spread is a serious concern to cervids health as they cross paths with livestock as well as hunters and civilians.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JTComfort, post: 3097035, member: 103514"] Correct. The"link" that CWD shares with these other diseases is that they are caused by prions that live inside the brain and spinal nerve tissue and fluid. BSE/MadCow is transmittable to humans from bovines from consumption of animal. CWD had not made that jump to humans. Cases of BSE are rarely reported, in part because in US we slaughter steers so early (at approx 18 months) that they haven't reached an age where symptoms present. So far, CWD had not made that jump to humans. Prions are not killed by the heat delivered by common cooking methods - they are proteins - so cows with symptoms are destroyed. There is concern about CWD prions remaining in the food chain and that potential for the prion disease to jump species is more likely to be seen in scavengers and predators like coyotes first. VA's urban archery program requires submission of harvested deer heads for sampling and testing. In addition to being detected in several adjacent counties over the last few years, CWD was detected in deer in Fairfax County last year from a deer outside the archery program. The rapid spread is a serious concern to cervids health as they cross paths with livestock as well as hunters and civilians. [/QUOTE]
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