Two Hunters from the Same Lodge Afflicted with Sporadic CJD: Is Chronic Wasting Disease to Blame?

This study presents a cluster of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) cases after exposure to chronic wasting disease (CWD)-infected deer, suggestive of potential prion transmission from CWD-infected deer to humans.

In 2022, a 72-year-old man with a history of consuming meat from a CWD-infected deer population presented with rapid-onset confusion and aggression. His friend, who had also eaten venison from the same deer population, recently died of CJD, raising concerns about a potential link between CWD and human prion disease. Despite aggressive symptomatic treatment of seizures and agitation, the patient’s condition deteriorated and he died within a month of initial presentation. The diagnosis was confirmed postmortem as sporadic CJD with homozygous methionine at codon 129 (sCJDMM1). The patient’s history, including a similar case in his social group, suggests a possible novel animal-to-human transmission of CWD. Based on non-human primate and mouse models, cross-species transmission of CJD is plausible. Due to the challenge of distinguishing sCJDMM1 from CWD without detailed prion protein characterization, it is not possible to definitively rule out CWD in these cases. Although causation remains unproven, this cluster emphasizes the need for further investigation into the potential risks of consuming CWD-infected deer and its implications for public health.
Conclusions:
Clusters of sporadic CJD cases may occur in regions with CWD-confirmed deer populations, hinting at potential cross-species prion transmission. Surveillance and further research are essential to better understand this possible association.

That is terrible. Now I will be skeered to eat any deer meat.

[quote=gwstang]That is terrible. Now I will be skeered to eat any deer meat.

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1. Have it tested

2. Do your own processing.
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Now they got what they wanted. A disease that is so rare and so difficult for a person to catch that it means an entire set of rules, laws, regulations, and industries are needed to combat something that is basically nothing. A perfect government borne disease. Its not really a problem but it needs a lot of money and public control measures to make it a problem, so that more money can be put towards the problems the problem solving creates.
You have a massively greater chance of catching salmonella or another food borne disease that can kill you than you do with CWD. But it sounds scary and the control freaks saw how the UK and Europe used Mad Cow disease to control the beef industry and population so CWD seems to fit the same bill for controlling gun owning Americans that are probably conservative.

playing devil's advocate here...........every time this comes up, the general consensus here is that all the researchers are FOS, they're lying in order to get people to stop hunting or just a power grab through more regulation, etc....

so, what data/research/evidence would it take for y'all to believe there might actually be something to it?

playing devil's advocate here...........every time this comes up, the general consensus here is that all the researchers are FOS, they're lying in order to get people to stop hunting or just a power grab through more regulation, etc....

so, what data/research/evidence would it take for y'all to believe there might actually be something to it?