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What can REALLY be done about CWD?
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5799364" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>A recent study found they were able to destroy prions on metal equipment. However, that doesn't say anything about how they could be destroyed in Nature.</p><p></p><p></p><p>It is more a factor of deer urinating on plants and other deer eating those plants. Although the prions can definitely be in soil, and deer can pick it up from there as well.</p><p></p><p></p><p>They do not become carriers of the disease. They can simply carry the prions in their gut until they defecate them out, perhaps miles away, slowly adding to the spread of the prions geographically.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Correct. It is not beatable in that it can't be conquered with any known treatment. No infected area has seen a decline in infection rates through ANY treatment or practice.</p><p></p><p>The only possible answer is letting Nature take her course. This is how disease immunity works. Just be shear chance, some deer will be immune to the disease. These deer will live, reproduce, and pass on their immunity to their offspring. Slowly, over a very long time (a hundred generations or more), the majority of the deer will be descendants of those original few immune deer, and CWD will just become a minor problem.</p><p></p><p>So what can be done in the meantime? Nothing. The best policy is to do nothing dramatic, like trying to knock down the deer population to "slow the spread," a tactic that has been tried in other areas will little result, other than driving hunters out of hunting.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5799364, member: 17"] A recent study found they were able to destroy prions on metal equipment. However, that doesn't say anything about how they could be destroyed in Nature. It is more a factor of deer urinating on plants and other deer eating those plants. Although the prions can definitely be in soil, and deer can pick it up from there as well. They do not become carriers of the disease. They can simply carry the prions in their gut until they defecate them out, perhaps miles away, slowly adding to the spread of the prions geographically. Correct. It is not beatable in that it can't be conquered with any known treatment. No infected area has seen a decline in infection rates through ANY treatment or practice. The only possible answer is letting Nature take her course. This is how disease immunity works. Just be shear chance, some deer will be immune to the disease. These deer will live, reproduce, and pass on their immunity to their offspring. Slowly, over a very long time (a hundred generations or more), the majority of the deer will be descendants of those original few immune deer, and CWD will just become a minor problem. So what can be done in the meantime? Nothing. The best policy is to do nothing dramatic, like trying to knock down the deer population to "slow the spread," a tactic that has been tried in other areas will little result, other than driving hunters out of hunting. [/QUOTE]
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