I just posted on the MN DNR at its finest thread that has a couple of links in it that should be read. Sorry I wasn't able to copy the links and just post on this one. I'm on my tablet and couldn't get it to copy.

They're giving unlimited tags for some area's around here now. All it takes is for one or two positives and an area is mapped out around it and tags are sold for that area.

If the truth ever sees daylight we'll find out that the wet market bats were just a convenient scapegoat for Fauci and his Wuhan lab experiments.

The State/Fed Biologists ("The Experts") are incentivized to tell you this is the worst catastrophe of a generation because it means more research funding for them.

These people are not driven of normal market forces. They do no need to provide a quality product or service to stay in business. They just need to sell fear and the money pours in.

I would respectfully disagree. Having lived through and still living with the various and sundry honeybee issues of the last forty years. Namely varroa mites which like CWD has been around for decades without a "cure" and will probably be here for the rest of eternity. I can tell you that there are issues and problems out there that no one is getting rich off of and quite frankly aren't being funded enough.

And your whole argument is facetious as biologists and wildlife depts are paid by license sales, no deer to hunt no licenses sold. The vested interest isn't in research or killing off deer but putting more hunters in the woods.

If CWD makes the jump from deer to humans the term catastrophe will be an understatement.

Respectfully, having lived through the CWD paranoia in Wisconsin I do not buy into the narrative that has been spread by the wdnr or its minions. I as many have read and studied any and all available material we can. my conclusion continues to be it is present, has always been present and became detected as you test for it. More common with more deer numbers. I would bet I and most have eaten CWD infected deer, elk, etc. There are multiple agendas at play with the "discovery" of CWD.

I agree with Bear Tracker. I think CWD was present in Wisconsin long before it was reported. I also am skeptical of the DNR as well. CWD is going to be here forever.

Probably.

Let's all hope that humans dont ever get it from eating venison. Would be terrible to bring home venison and it kills your family.

That’s why I’m not knowingly eating cwd infected or possibly infected meat

There were some studies done a few years ago where the scientists took prions and injected them into the brains of different primates, and also fed them infected tissue. Squirrel monkeys contracted the disease in most cases, but the macaques they tested didn't. Since macaque genetics are more similar to humans, they concluded that it's more likely that humans can't get CWD through ingesting infected tissue.

I think the fact that direct injection of prions into the brains of these macaques didn't cause them to contract CWD is pretty powerful evidence that eating infected deer won't get you sick.

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/20/5/13-0778_article

I agree with Bear Tracker and Badger23. I think CWD was around for a lot longer than we realized, and it was probably present in Wisconsin prior to its "discovery". By the time the deer start showing symptoms, they're so far gone that the majority of them probably get preyed upon by coyotes, bobcats and wolves anyway.

I'll get an animal tested if its free, but I'm not particularly concerned about it.

Some believe CWD was "created" during scientific/biological research into scrapie in sheep in the western US....maybe by accident it made the jump to cervids.

Eating squirrel brains has been directly tied to CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob diesease) in humans. I hope I am wrong when I say it is only a matter of time before CWD jumps from a cervid to a human. 99% of the red meat I, as well as my All Purpose boy and his boys, eat is venison or elk.