Tick Study

[mike243]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/me...S&cvid=31f34c4056204b15bf830075e6a3705f&ei=58 pretty interesting/makes you wonder

 

[BSK]

Truly fascinating.

 

[AT Hiker]

F-ticks.

 

[HoytDawg]

This is pretty good evidence that humans don't need to worry about CWD, right? Given how long CWD has been around, surely have been more than a few ticks that traveled from a deer to a human. I'm not a scientist though may be completely wrong.

 

[recurve60#]

I would think ticks sucking on a cwd deer would show positive for cwd.

 

[Bell3wv]

Give myself a good dose of Happy Jack and ivermecton before I hit the turkey woods

 

[mike243]

Looks to me like the tics can transfer it to other animals. All the more reason to take precaution against the little bastiges

 

[BigAl]

Are they going to pass new regulations that you can't transport ticks from a CWD zone or state to a non-CWD zone/state?

 

[Omega]

Once a tick gets hold, do they move to different hosts? I'd think they only move on once the host dies and starts to get cold.

 

[Popcorn]

Looks to me like the tics can transfer it to other animals. All the more reason to take precaution against the little bastiges

In reality this is blood to blood transmission! Not a biologist here but blood to blood can expose vulnerabilities unknown!

In the end any and creatures may contribute to the spread.

Give myself a good dose of Happy Jack and ivermecton before I hit the turkey woods

Might wanna start dosing your deer as well.

 

[mike243]

I have read for years of folks killing deer in other states as dosing them and covering with a tarp before they dress them, I haven't killed 1 covered with tics and lice but have seen some that others have in wTn

 

[Bone Collector]

If that's the case we're screwed. Unless they can isolate genetics that show immunity and let those deer breed out CWD

 

[Speedwell-Hunter]

This is pretty good evidence that humans don't need to worry about CWD, right? Given how long CWD has been around, surely have been more than a few ticks that traveled from a deer to a human. I'm not a scientist though may be completely wrong.

THIS. If ticks bite thousands of people per year and no CWD in a person, then this shows our fear of the disease is overblown. I agree.

 

[ScLowCountry]

I would think ticks sucking on a cwd deer would show positive for cwd.

And then we eat rare back strap. Kinda the same thing. Heat doesn't kill prions anyway

 

[RoyalPrudent]

This is pretty good evidence that humans don't need to worry about CWD, right? Given how long CWD has been around, surely have been more than a few ticks that traveled from a deer to a human. I'm not a scientist though may be completely wrong.

I'm not convinced of this. I think it probably doesn't come from most muscle tissue, but eating squirrel brains has been connected to crutchfield-jacobson's disease and it's a prion disease too. And mad cow can jump to humans (another prion disease. All the more reason to soak my hunting clothes in permethrin.

 

[RoyalPrudent]

If that's the case we're screwed. Unless they can isolate genetics that show immunity and let those deer breed out CWD

could happen anyway naturally.

 

[DayDay]

Are they going to pass new regulations that you can't transport ticks from a CWD zone or state to a non-CWD zone/state?

Also, no limits on killing ticks.

 

[HoytDawg]

I'm not convinced of this. I think it probably doesn't come from most muscle tissue, but eating squirrel brains has been connected to crutchfield-jacobson's disease and it's a prion disease too. And mad cow can jump to humans (another prion disease. All the more reason to soak my hunting clothes in permethrin.

I've always thought the same- why I've never worried about eating deer/elk meat (muscle), but been careful with my skinning practices around spine/lymph nodes.

I might be misunderstanding the study, but is it not showing that ticks pull enough prion out of a cwd infected deer to infect a different deer they attach too?

 

[RoyalPrudent]

I've always thought the same- why I've never worried about eating deer/elk meat (muscle), but been careful with my skinning practices around spine/lymph nodes.

I might be misunderstanding the study, but is it not showing that ticks pull enough prion out of a cwd infected deer to infect a different deer they attach too?

that's how i understood it.

 

[DeerCamp]

Once a tick gets hold, do they move to different hosts? I'd think they only move on once the host dies and starts to get cold.

Yes. I don't know why I remember this, but the average number of hosts in a ticks lifespan is 3.