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<blockquote data-quote="ImBillT" data-source="post: 3093683" data-attributes="member: 117715"><p>I process my own.</p><p></p><p>All prion diseases are more difficult to transmit to a different species than the one they originated in. It's a statistics game. If one in a zillion zillion CWD prions will end up infecting a human then it comes down to how many people are eating how many pounds of infected deer, and how were those deer processed(splitting the spine with a saw will result in far more prions being consumed that processing the animal with only a knife and eating only the meat). Millions of infected cattle were eaten in Europe before a few hundred people died horrible deaths. </p><p></p><p>On a side note, the monkey studies suggest an estimated human incubation period of about 12 years. Twelve years ago the prevalence was much lower than it is today. It may be a long time before we find any more hunters dying of CJD even if it is slightly transmissible to humans.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ImBillT, post: 3093683, member: 117715"] I process my own. All prion diseases are more difficult to transmit to a different species than the one they originated in. It's a statistics game. If one in a zillion zillion CWD prions will end up infecting a human then it comes down to how many people are eating how many pounds of infected deer, and how were those deer processed(splitting the spine with a saw will result in far more prions being consumed that processing the animal with only a knife and eating only the meat). Millions of infected cattle were eaten in Europe before a few hundred people died horrible deaths. On a side note, the monkey studies suggest an estimated human incubation period of about 12 years. Twelve years ago the prevalence was much lower than it is today. It may be a long time before we find any more hunters dying of CJD even if it is slightly transmissible to humans. [/QUOTE]
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