Just got a call from TWRA. Deer I killed 2 weeks ago tested positive. Guess I will kill another one for the freezer.
CWD POSITIVE
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That sucks,what do you do with meat till the test comes back?
Man that sucks. I'm just dont know what I'll do when it makes its way over here. I guess as long as I could test it I'd be fine.
I picked it up from the processor yesterday. Got another one at processor right now. I will chunk this one.
Omega
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Already in the CWD zone?
Keep in mind the current tests are disease monitoring tests, not food safety tests. A negative test doesn't mean there are no CWD prions in the meat unfortunately.
If it were me (but it's not) I'd eat it anyway. People been eating infected deer for years, they/we just haven't known it and nobody's got sick as of yet.
Haywood Co. Been in cwd zone since 2nd year
Hang tight. It's coming.
sharpshooter
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That sucks, hope the other one is negative for ya.
Omega
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Ah, so they doing the replacement buck and processor credit still?
I totally agree 100%! I think it is more of a scare tactic to discourage people from hunting. Call me crazy but I don't think it's much different than EHD. They both kill deer. Prions are not totally understood. Probably created in a lab like the China virus! If you believed everything the CDC has said about c19, then you probably believe this one too.
https://www.cdc.gov/prions/index.html
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wsm
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Sorry to hear this .
Sorry for your hard work in harvesting a deer an then having to throw it out.
But I'd bet you have eaten one with it in the past before testing started.
gatodoc
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These prions came from sheep. Scrapie is a prion disease in sheep that's been around for many years. There was some studies of sheep scrapie out west years ago. After the testing was over some dumbass put elk in the same pens the sheep had been in. Guess what happened? It jumped species and started affecting elk and deer.
itll jump to humans eventuall. That's the nature of nature. I'm not too worried about it myself. While I'm sure it'll happen the odds on being the first human infected are infinitely small. Much more chance being struck by lightening while hunting.
CWD will be all over TN shortly. TWRA may slow it but won't stop it. It'll not mean the end of deer hunting but it might mean the end of some deer hunters. CWD kills deer but not wholesale like EHD. It'll thin the herd but eventually some deer will develop resistance.
the fear factor will stop some from hunting and eating deer. SAD....I'm gonna kill deer, test deer, and not knowingly eat know positives but it's not going to stop my hunting. Got more things to worry about than CWD....
Squirle hunter
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I think it's been here a lot longer than they let on it's probably all over the state just cook it all the way thru don't think much survives past 140 degrees anyway
WestTn Huntin man
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Because it is a Prion it takes extremely High temperatures to kill. 140* works for bacteria not Prions.
gatodoc
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Takes thousands of degrees to kill the prions. Test and eat if negative. Eat if positive chances of problems are in the billions.
DeerCamp
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I know quite a bit about prions. Unfortunately, CWD is quite real and has been around for much longer than anyone realizes.
Fortunately, there has never been a documented case of transmission to humans, and Wisconsin has been neck deep in it for decades.
Probably safe to eat the meat (but not organs), but also probably best to play it safe.
I wonder about this myself. And other states don't seem to be on the same page. I hunt in Mississippi as well as Tennessee and nobody down there ever mentions it. I don't even know if they test. I've never heard of it.
Omega
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As I was raised in CO, I've always avoided the bone marrow, spine and brain. I always debone my venison and am in no way shape or form worried about contracting a CWD related illness from it. I worry more about tick, mosquito and government illnesses than I do CWD. But I won't tell anyone what to do, as with many things it's a personal choice as it should be.
fairchaser
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Sadly, CWD can not be killed through normal cooking. Even a kiln used to sterilize surgical instruments failed to kill it. Since it's a protein, it's not alive like bacteria or a virus.
fairchaser
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I know MDWF tests for CWD. It's definitely in North MS. Deer don't pay attention to state lines and it's all over the place just north of the MS state line. Just because people don't mention it means little. It's been discussed on this site for many years and we are mostly all deer hunters. It's out there and it kills deer.
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And you're out the butchering fee. I'll eat deer when it reaches here, but I will not feed it to friends and family. I'll be done hunting when it gets here, or maybe kill one every 2yrs just for me to eat.
FLTENNHUNTER1
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How many Democrats have eaten infected deer? Must be in the millions.
philsanchez76
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My question is how in the heck would the processor be able to keep their equipment clean while processing 100s of deer (some with CWD and some without it)? That's also assuming you get back exactly the deer you killed and nothing got mixed. I process all mine myself and im sure as heck not heating up all my quipment to 1400 degrees to clean it between each deer while I wait for the test. I think ill just keep eating em. Its one of my greatest pleasures in life.
I'm not questioning the existence of it. I know it exists. I'm just surprised I never hear it mentioned in MS. To be fair I hunt a good ways south near Columbus.
SES
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Dang good question.
JCDEERMAN
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Been eating mule deer and elk from CO for over 10 years in the reddest of the red hot zones out there. No one mentions it and I haven't had any side effects. Testing out there is non-existent. The government screws up more things in life than any meth head thought he could. I'm hesitant, but not scared
I hadn't even thought about elk. I've never turned down elk from CO and never will.
