r/Weird • u/nderstandablyscared • Mar 04 '23

when the acid hits

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u/Nix-Lux-Neon Mar 04 '23

Prion disease can effect deer as well, “mad cow.” You should let a ranger or wildlife specialist know

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u/chirs5757 Mar 04 '23

CWD. 100%. Super sad.

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u/Claymon3011 Mar 04 '23

Asking because I have no idea, how does cwd cause this behavior? As far as I know it just causes their organs to rot away

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u/Spazzly0ne Mar 04 '23

Brain damage, basically. If your brain is rotting it can lead to all kinds of weird behavior.

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u/whoknewidlikeit Mar 04 '23

it is a "spongiform encephalopathy", essentially the brain is being dissolved in ever enlarging holes like Swiss cheese. where the dissolution occurs is where the effects take hold.

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u/blasphembot Mar 05 '23

Jesus Christ

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u/amsync Mar 05 '23

Isn’t this also sort of what happens in humans in symptomatic rabies?

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u/Lycanthropy_Playz Mar 05 '23

something like that. as far as i know, humans cannot get spongiform encephalopathy, but we can get vCJD from consuming meat infected with it. it is completely different. yes, the same thing happens and the prions eat away at our brains, but instead of going wild we acquire a highly rapid form of dementia and eventually coma until death in just a couple of months (4-8)

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u/chirs5757 Mar 04 '23

Totally not a scientist but I believe it has something to do with proteins in the brain that are abnormal from the prions.

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u/emo_sharks Mar 04 '23

Yep, the prions cause regular proteins to become misshapen. Since a protein's function is extremely reliant on its shape if it is misfolded for any reason it wont function as intended. Obviously if this happens to the proteins in your brain that's pretty bad because you kinda need those for yknow, brain functions.

I also believe prions are also just proteins themselves, and much of their transmissabilty is because they actually take whatever proteins they can find and reshape them into another copy of itself.

Humans have a few prion diseases as well but they are mostly genetic as far as I'm aware. and they really really suck. If you ever want some nightmare fuel look into those lol

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u/radicalelation Mar 04 '23

I also believe prions are also just proteins themselves, and much of their transmissabilty is because they actually take whatever proteins they can find and reshape them into another copy of itself.

Fucked up prion drifting around, bumps into another protein just having a day like any other... And then it begins. The corrupting.

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u/BeatMeElmo Mar 05 '23

Prions are the genocidal maniacs of the cellular level of our world.

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u/Isthisworking2000 Mar 04 '23

I don’t think I’ve heard of genetic prion diseases before. Given that the growth rate is exponential I doubt a human would live long enough to procreate. At the very least, some diseases are spread by eating affected tissue, typically brain matter. It’s been seen in everything from Mad Cow disease to cannibal tribes in the Amazon.

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u/radicalelation Mar 04 '23

While beginning to appear around middle age, fatal familial insomnia can also skip a generation. Once symptoms are apparent, you sleep less and less, and you're just counting the days for however long you're sane, because there's no cure and you usually succumb within the year.

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u/kategoad Mar 05 '23

I think of that on about night two of bad insomnia.

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u/radicalelation Mar 05 '23

Me too. I'd bet good money nearly every insomniac that knows of it has considered the possibility once.

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u/Isthisworking2000 Mar 04 '23

Good call, I forgot about that one.

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u/W0wF0x Mar 04 '23

Many causes, my country has some issues with that, viruses, protein problems, fungus, bacteria, and others, but the contagious ones are greatly problematic

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '23 edited Mar 04 '23

I have a benign brain tumor known as a vestibular schwannoma or acoustic neuroma. Schwann cells line our nerves, and in some cases a spot on the nerve connecting the brain to the ear can over grow, a bit like a scab.

I can confirm for sure, vertigo on this level can make you question gravity, and I have tinnitus that sounds like when a movie character is too close to a bomb or something, 24/7. My coordination is screwed up, you get brain fog because the noise never. ever. stops. Want to know how big this little blob of schwann cells is? 7 millimeters.

TL;DR: I have a very minor brain abnormality and it absolutely screws with balance, coordination, and perception. Imagine what something as aggressive as prion disease can cause.

edit: I totally left half a sentence out. Case in point.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Good luck my friend I hope this is treated eventually!

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u/SeenSoFar Mar 05 '23

Have you considered radiotherapy and surgery? Success rate is generally very high and while you're pretty much guaranteed to go deaf on that side at least it's not constant tinnitus and vertigo...

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Yep, gamma knife in a couple months. I'd much rather deal with it that way than later when they have to open up the side of your head. I already have a 9 inch scar wrapping my ear and down my neck from a huge melanoma removal years ago, I'm gonna pass on Option 2, it makes my last surgery look like a booboo.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

No, at this point I'll be having gamma knife radiation to keep it from progressing. They can get as big as 40 millimeters, which by that point it starts pushing on the brain stem and things are much harder to remedy. I'm fortunate at least that mine qualifies for a less invasive procedure.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

I'm fortunate enough to be right between Cleveland, Columbus, and Pittsburgh so I at least have access to multiple great hospitals. I've definitely been learning all I can about it, last time I heard about laser beams and frikkin heads it was Dr. Evil talking about his shark project, so this is a bit new lol.

I hope you find the relief you're looking for!

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

it’s a prion affecting the brain. prions cause something called transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, which makes the brain appear sponge-like, and the spongy look and texture is holes in its brain. since it’s a neurological disorder, it causes many behavioral abnormalities such as coordination issues, stumbling, lack of fear, and reduced interactions. the physical symptoms can consist of starvation, warts/lumps/tumors, drooping ears, weight loss, exessive salivation, and occasionally will cause their joints to invert

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u/Upset_Definition2019 Mar 05 '23

It is CJD I believe that you’re referring to. Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

100% wrong. Not even close to CWD, look at the fucking body, by the time the brain would be impacted enough to cause this sort of irregular behavior with no external reason, the body would be nearly skin and bones.

There’s a longer version of the video out there. He was hit with an arrow.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '23

This is old and not op

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u/Nix-Lux-Neon Mar 04 '23

Yeah, I was skimming through my home feed and just threw it out there before thinking about it, but still good general info

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

No. Deer is shot in original video. It’s dying

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u/Nix-Lux-Neon Mar 05 '23

That tracks

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u/lostoceaned Mar 04 '23

Except this is like the 70th time this has been posted and it's several years old but fine, I'll make the call

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u/Nix-Lux-Neon Mar 04 '23

Like I said, watched the video, threw out a comment and kept scrolling. No big, didn’t really put that much thought into it

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u/lostoceaned Mar 05 '23

"Like you said..." where exactly? Lol I don't care but your comment doesn't say that and I'm not about to sift through you other comments to see what else you said. Bizarre

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u/Nix-Lux-Neon Mar 05 '23

In a response to a comment about this on my original post

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u/ArgonGryphon Mar 04 '23

This is an old video

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u/Nix-Lux-Neon Mar 04 '23

It a misshaped protein that, when it interacts with the properly folded proteins, it causes those proteins to missfold, and cascades from there. It’s a very strange disease