Thread: Chronic Wasting Disease Threat to NZ(CWD)

Originally Posted by kawekakid

Scare tactics so no need to worry .if it arrives the power that runs the country bought it here

*cough* twigntweed *cough*

Originally Posted by LMcNab

Good podcast on the topic.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/02g...RFGmo1t55pJlkg

One of the interesting points in here is that no Human infection has been documented as yet from infected deer meat, in spite of probably alot of consumption. I wouldn't risk it, but interesting none the less.

We also have a testing programme in NZ deer farms where a certain number of animals exhibiting "wasting" symptoms are euthanized and brain tissue harvested for testing every year. This is conducted by the MPI Biosecurity team I believe.

That is 5 years old. What I posted is new information.

@Oldbloke. “What I posted is new information”. The author of that article also makes the statements along the lines of “nothing to see here” and “take these findings with a large grain of salt, probably on my next deer steak”.
Worry about CWD if/when it gets established and is proven to be transferable to humans. Most people have got enough shit to worry about as it is.

Originally Posted by Oldbloke

That is 5 years old. What I posted is new information.

What you posted is a new article containing a renewed twist on old speculation. There is no new information. Its right there in the article, Quote "Bottom Line: Not Much News Here"
But hey, if you want to fret about it, go ahead. I'll trust the system that had kept Foot and Mouth, Mad Cow and countless other animal diseases out and wait for it to actually be a problem here.

Originally Posted by LMcNab

What you posted is a new article containing a renewed twist on old speculation. There is no new information. Its right there in the article, Quote "Bottom Line: Not Much News Here"
But hey, if you want to fret about it, go ahead. I'll trust the system that had kept Foot and Mouth, Mad Cow and countless other animal diseases out and wait for it to actually be a problem here.

Trouble is, the system is getting more and more broken every day. So we need to be aware of the risks.

Well, I'm in AU. So don't care. Just thought I would share that info.

Originally Posted by STC

Sure the "conservationists" would love an opportunity to "have to ban" hunting due to human risk and be "forced" to spend more money (some of it into their pockets, some of it into their friends) on poison drops.

reckon you have it backwards. I know a fair number of conservationists and they all want dead deer. They like hunting and hunters. Some even hunt themselves both for meat and happy bush.

Anyway, CWD here is just a matter of time. Some hunter or farmer from the USA will leak it here by accident, or saying they cleaned their boots or kit when they didn't. Everywhere in the US by now.

Seen what it does to a human brain?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...sting-disease/

Possible link to first human deaths posted a few days back.

"Now, an article published in Volume 102 of the journal Neurology suggests a possible link to human illness. The article states that a “72-year-old man with a history of consuming meat from a CWD-infected deer population” died in 2022 after a rapid onset of uncharacteristic aggression and confusion. A friend of his, who also was known to consume meat from the same infected population of deer, has also recently died of confirmed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientist...185101901.html

But it's not here yet so useless worrying until the day it does.

Originally Posted by Remote

reckon you have it backwards. I know a fair number of conservationists and they all want dead deer. They like hunting and hunters. Some even hunt themselves both for meat and happy bush.

Anyway, CWD here is just a matter of time. Some hunter or farmer from the USA will leak it here by accident, or saying they cleaned their boots or kit when they didn't. Everywhere in the US by now.

Seen what it does to a human brain?

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...sting-disease/

Possible link to first human deaths posted a few days back.

"Now, an article published in Volume 102 of the journal Neurology suggests a possible link to human illness. The article states that a “72-year-old man with a history of consuming meat from a CWD-infected deer population” died in 2022 after a rapid onset of uncharacteristic aggression and confusion. A friend of his, who also was known to consume meat from the same infected population of deer, has also recently died of confirmed Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD)."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientist...185101901.html

But it's not here yet so useless worrying until the day it does.

True. many conservationists at the "ground level" (i.e. the ones doing the actual work) are pro hunting, and hunt themselves. As a matter of fact most people are pro hunting (if it is done in a sensible and safe matter)

"conservationist" organizations however (i.e. socialist, ideologue vandals larping as conservationists) claim that bullets kill kea, want to eradicate wapiti and publicly insult hunters among other things

Argh munged up my links. Here you go

https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...sting-disease/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientist...185101901.html