Chronic Wasting Disease

Thanks. Lets hope it doesn't ever reach our shores. I hope all our fellow stalkers who travel to USA or Norway can take measures to eliminate the risk of them bringing it here.
 
I've hunted Colorado & NM for both deer & elk, thankfully in areas not known to be infected & neither I or my companions have ever had an animal test positive.
 
The latest comming out of the states is a link between the misfolded prion & a spiroplasma. There are thoughts this may be the infectious agent in TSE's, its early yet & the fact that the infectious agent in prions are so difficult to denature seems to confound the theory. At the very least, even if the bacteria is a symptoms rather than a cause it means that a test kit for field use could be avaliable in the foreseeable future.
 
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