>>13519552>Cull all the deer, kill any in areas where the prions are detected in the plants/soil, at least until they have degraded away.Doesn't work. There was a deer research station in chicago who had an outbreak in their cages population, they ended up shutting it down for like a decade, removed all the plants and like 15 inches of topsoil in the area, covered it with fresh stuff, then when they reopened the deer all just got it again.
Studies in rhesus monkeys shows that if you expose their brains directly to CWD prions they'll develop a Jacob creutzfeld spongiform type disease. However, humans do not carry the same protein which it attacks in rhesuses, it's highly modified to the point where it's not infectious to us. That doesn't mean it wont always be noninfectious, repeated expose may possibly cause a "prion shift", but I don't know how that could happen. Still, I highly, highly recommend you avoid infected deer meat, the prion can't adapt to humans if it isn't given the chance.
