CWD infected deer served at banquet

[Celebration]

http://espn.go.com/outdoors/conservation/news/2005/0412/2035989.html

A couple of weeks old, but don't remember seeing it here.

"VERONA, N.Y. — A white-tailed deer recently diagnosed with chronic wasting disease was eaten by as many as 350 people at a sportsmen's dinner last month, a health department official said.

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Ken Fanelli, spokesman for the Oneida County Health Department, said the deer "showed no sign of sickness" when it was donated. He said people who ate the venison do not need to worry about contracting the disease, but urged them to contact state or local health officials. "There's no indication whatsoever that the disease has been linked to human illness of any kind," Fanelli said.


The disease was first discovered in New York two weeks ago in two white-tailed deer that had been part of captive herds in Oneida County, east of Syracuse. The second positive case was discovered in a small herd that had taken in animals from the herd that yielded the initial confirmed case, according to the state Department of Agriculture and Markets."

[whistle]

Was this a National Rifle Association group.....

...any cold dead fingers grasping muskets?

[htuttle]

1. Whoops...

Here's a good CWD resource:

http://www.maddeer.org

[whistle]

2. Part of the problem with early detection is that most State....

...departments use improper procedures and methodologies to trace the diseased brains and so give false negative readings in their reports.

Catching CWD early

Early detection of the disease is critical to control its spread, Feldner said. To that end, the state has been testing the brains of thousands of deer and elk hunted, mostly east of the divide, for years.

Department officials have never found any evidence of the disease.

Yet CWD keeps turning up.

[madrchsod]

5. one cannot destroy the

the "germ-virus-or what ever it is that spreads this disease. it gets into the soil and cannot be removed thus infecting future generations. we are facing a similar problem in northern illinois and south west wisconsin. it started in wisconsin during tommy thompson governorship...he did nothing to stop the problem until it was to late.

[Pepperbelly]

6. it's a prion ...

not even actually alive ... at least even less so than a virus.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. So if there is no danger to those who ate it

why is this guy urging them to contact the health dept? :wtf:

[oneighty]

4. They have become

human experiment subjects.

A base line for further studies.

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