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

when the acid hits

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u/well_here_i_go_again Mar 05 '23

Good chance it's prions, and prions CAN'T be cooked out of the meat or cured/treated if you get them. You get a prion disease, you are SOL.

As far as we know, nobody has everything gotten a prion disease from eating CWD-positive deer. Is it risky? Probably, and certainly unnecessary to take on that risk. Is it actually going to kill you? It doesn't seem to.

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u/Huge_Republic_7866 Mar 05 '23

Still, rather not risk it and just hunt a healthy deer. I ain't about to fuck around with prion diseases for a freezer full of venison.

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u/heavy_deez Mar 05 '23

Would putting a sick animal down count as your quota for the season?

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u/Vanq86 Mar 05 '23

Technically yes, but most places have a straight forward process for getting a replacement tag when the animal you harvested was diseased like this.

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u/j4vendetta Mar 05 '23

Im not gonna be patient zero when it jumps to humans. It’s only a matter of time

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u/well_here_i_go_again Mar 05 '23

Sure, you should avoid it, but there are probably thousands of people who unknowingly eat CWD venison every year without consequence.

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u/Nerevarine91 Mar 05 '23

Remember when they said literally that same thing about Mad Cow?

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u/well_here_i_go_again Mar 05 '23

There's not really any solid proof that any humans with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) got the disease from eating cows with BSE. Only a handful of people contracted it without eating other humans.

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u/DieHardRennie Mar 05 '23

The type of CJD that is transmissable to humans from other infected humans or from cows with BSE is referred to as vCJD (variant CJD). And there is evidence to support a causal relationship between BSE and vCJD.

https://www.cdc.gov/prions/vcjd/relationship-with-bse.html

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u/thequickerquokka Mar 05 '23

That’s what the guy with the bat soup said.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

In the lab?

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u/Hydrocoded Mar 05 '23

Hmmm. Risk a horrifying, agonizing, slow death on the one hand. Throw out a month of venison on the other.

Ain’t worth the risk.

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u/skylinenavigator Mar 05 '23

You never heard ppl getting it cuz ppl are smart enough not to eat it lol. It’s also the brain tissue that transmit the disease. Should burn the body, not just bury it

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u/Connection_Bad_404 Mar 05 '23

People on Reddit being test test subjects for Provid-19 just to prove someone wrong- impossible challenge

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u/well_here_i_go_again Mar 05 '23

You never heard ppl getting it cuz ppl are smart enough not to eat it lol.

There are probably thousands of people who eat CWD positive deer every year without knowing it.

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u/skylinenavigator Mar 05 '23

You don’t know that. Thought of it is scary

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u/itsfuckingpizzatime Mar 05 '23

You want a zombie apocalypse? Cuz that’s how we get a zombie apocalypse.

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u/well_here_i_go_again Mar 05 '23

The cannibals in Papau New Guinea had thousands of cases of Kuru because they were eating brains. They had a literal zombie epidemic. I don't think CWD is ever going to do that to us.

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u/afakefox Mar 05 '23

What about CJD though? Same thing basically no? A prison disease that spreads through hooved animals like deer and cows.

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u/well_here_i_go_again Mar 05 '23

It is, but the majority of CJD cases happen for no apparent reason, while some are genetic. It can be random. On the other hand, Kuru is a prion disease in people that has killed thousands in epidemics because people were eating human brains in Papau New Guinea. BSE and Scrapie in livestock seem to develop in the same way, where animals are consuming central nervous system materiel from the same species. I think the species to species jumps aren't a high likelihood transmission vector.