Well the word on the street is it didn't have any glands. Seems someone shot them out
CWD Positive Map
- Thread starter Spurhunter
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I wish it was that easy. A lot of $$$ and studies and still no way to stop the spread that started out West many years ago.
hmm, isn't that what they also said about Lyme disease? Lots of documentation and success against it so why not against wasting our money monitoring to induce fear instead of at least trying cure the situation? Nothing to lose in trying.
backyardtndeer
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Maybe necks time?
BSK
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I've never heard that Lyme's Disease couldn't be cured. It is caused by a simple bacterium that is killed easily. The prions that cause CWD are not alive. They cannot be "killed" nor destroyed (although there is some recent research suggesting certain bleach solutions might be able to clean them off of metal surfaces). And they are infectious forever. There is no cure for CWD and there never will be. Once infected, any animal with a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) is doomed. The only hope is that nature will work this out. Deer immune to the disease will exist and eventually that immunity will spread through the processes of Natural Selection until most deer are immune.
Some things just won't die...
Last couple of deer I killed I had tested, but no one has asked for location data like they did when it first showed up in Fayette Co.
When you check it in with the app, does it not ask you to drop a pin where it was killed? All of mine have.
backyardtndeer
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Only if you check yes for cwd testing. If you check no, it does not.
You can decide later to have the deer checked.
I don't recall it doing that, but its possible I could have missed it.
fairchaser
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That's a great question. But, it's not possible unless they find a cure or all the deer die off.
fairchaser
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Trust me. They are trying and have been trying and will continue to try. There's a bill before congress right now to dedicate a large chunk of money to combat or find a cure against CWD. This industry is billions of dollars.
Squirle hunter
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If it is not alive how do they become infected in the first place. How does it multiply. And infect other deer if it is not a bacteria or organism or fungi.and how long was it here before they alerted the public and who is to say it ain't already in east tn. They ain't testing for it here are they or is that our responsibility as hunters.
backyardtndeer
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CWD prions are a protein that binds to cells.
Lyme is only "curable" if caught and treated immediately.
However, chronic Lyme happens if a tick bite isn't found and treated, is only treated for symptoms by big pharma and the medical community as they do not try to cure it...$1.3 Billion with a B per year.
BUT, chronic Lyme has now frequently been cured by chlorine dioxide per the books and documentation online.
I don't know for sure about cleaning metal surfaces with chlorine dioxide, but I know it should not be stored in plastic or metal containers after it's mixed and should not be provided with water in a metal watering container (dog bowl, chicken water, etc). The preferred water delivery is in glass. The chlorine dioxide used to clean hospital surgery suites is an air borne version which does safely clean stainless steal, etc. You can even seal off a small area or container and release the gas just in that area for disinfecting something specific.
While I've mentioned before that Lyme and cwd are not necessarily similar, we do know that poisons in the body are attracted to and attach to chlorine dioxide and urinated out of the body. So, why not try this in a testing environment with cwd deer that are going to die anyway...there's not much to lose and everything to gain.
backyardtndeer
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Does anyone here have access to a newer positive map? What I am finding is the same that was up since early in the season, surely there have been more positive cases?
^^^ I have not seen one updated since October. I suspect they could be awaiting season end results (31Jan23 for Unit CWD, or thereafter) before they tally the latest data and update the map.
backyardtndeer
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That would make sense, but is honestly pretty lousy that they are not giving us better feedback about the health of the herd in areas, and how it might be expanding. I never did pull the nodes from my second deer. Figured at this point that I would just wait for an updated map.
^^^ I hear you, but a 90 day old heat map is pretty "recent", all things considered. I doubt we'll have real time data any time soon, due to the turn around time of getting the results, inputting the data, displaying the data, QA/QC, etc.
What ya trying to say there brother ? Does he need practice ?
