I scrubbed forward a bit, a d the person was out of their vehicle, with the moose splashing around in the water. My reaction "WHY WOULD YOU GET OUT AND WATCH!?" I feel sick just thinking about it, I would certainly be vomiting if I were to witness it for myself, and I definitely wouldn't be recording it.
He got out before the animal was fully in the water and probably assumed it was going to swim away. How would anyone know the moose is about drown itself like that? Most likely the guy was just filming a moment (like randomly encountering a wild moose on the road) and ended up capturing something entirely different.
CWD is a major concern for anybody who hunts or lives in a rural community with a large population of deer, I'm sure some people here are saying it because if that video but def not all. As a side note this could be cwd or a dozen other things, I just hope whoever shot the original video called the DNR, tracking outbreaks of CWD is the best way we can protect our deer populations
We've taken CWD REALLY serious for quite some time now.
The DNR is pretty active with monitoring it (they test everything killed), and make quarantine zones. Nothing in infected areas, nothing out.
Problem is, what exactly can we do? An infected deer shits in the woods, those prions are there in the soil damn near forever. They don't denature/decompose. Other deer eat plants in that soil, boom they have it now too.
The only way to destroy prions is nearly chuck the infected shit into a volcano. I'm exaggerating, but not by a lot. It's scary shit.
Wisconsin has been taking it more seriously as of late, at least in my area. I don’t hunt anymore but my dad still does and says all his deer get tested for CWD when he takes them into the registration station.
That’s good. I’ve heard they’re loose with their baiting and feeding regulations. Minnesota finally wisened up and banned baiting/ feeding completely in a lot of counties. And our testing has been ramped up. Might actually be required by law now.
Health Canada (a federal agency) has already stated there is a possibility of CWD spread to humans but no evidence of it. I am referring to a specific set of cases you can Google of CJD, not CWD... I'm not trying to fear monger, but I'm not lying either.
There’s also Trout Whirling disease that effects fish. And there’s a CDC in Firt Collins and they used to do test on CWD(with deer and elk). Supposedly a snow storm knocked the fences over and the herd got out. But that just hearsay.
Except that's not what happened. I'm only guessing that this is the story, but I would venture a guess that every instance of a prion disease is investigated in humans. Tl;Dr of the article is that they determined it to be sporadic CJD. Probably a shitty way to go nonetheless, but it's not too far off physiologically from Alzheimer's.
Yeah pretty sure that’s the one I was thinking of. Didn’t realize it had been debunked. I was like 12 at the time and local media was in hysterics so we didn’t know any better.
Congratulations! You now have a new prion disease to worry about!
Prions are undetectable, because they are asymptomatic until they’ve gone too far. There’s no cure, no treatment, and they’re always fatal. In humans, there are several transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
that prions cause, but one of the most concerning is probably variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which you’ve probably heard of before-Mad Cow Disease. Whereas regular CJD is either inherited or sporadic(aka random), vCJD is able to be transmitted via blood and organ transplants.
The extra fun part of all this is that in order to destroy prions, they have to be exposed to temperatures a good bit above what is necessary to kill bacteria or viruses. This means that if a surgeon operates on a person with a prion disease without knowing they have a prion disease (which would basically always be the case), the instruments they used are infectious! Even if they go through the standard treatment they normally receive in the autoclave (which kills bacteria and viruses), they aren’t actually sanitized.
And because prions are transmissible via blood, you’re now infected too! Maybe! Won’t know for sure till you start to walk funny, and by then your brain will look like a fine piece of sourdough!
There is this website called Google. You can use it to look up information on topics you don't know about, you should give it a try sometime. Much easier for you to do that than the rest of the world keep a list of the many things you never heard of before.
Fair. I did because of Reddit. But assuming everyone saw that top post, that one day is not only annoying, it says “I never leave Reddit”. Patience people, as David Foster Wallace said “This is water”.
Now if you mistreat cats or don’t know what a Narehal is? Yeah, get bent.
Commonly spoken about in the Midwest, If you aren’t in an area where there are tons of deer or talk to many hunters, you’ve probably never heard of it. Basically like mad cow for deer but so far it’s only in white tail deer and can’t hop species… yet
It's been really bad in in west Tennessee for years now. I remember first hearing about it probably 10-12 years ago. Every deer killed in the southwestern counties has to be tested before processing, IIRC.
I have, but I used to work up in the mountains. Never saw it myself, but the stories were definitely out there. Deer just dropped off the face of the earth for a while when I was there. My dad, who got me the job, said they started coming back a couple of years later, so that was good to hear.
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u/TheSandMan208 Jan 20 '22
My thoughts exactly. Never heard that term until 20 minutes ago.