cancer..?

My wife likes watching (or at least having them on) these game warden shows that Animal Planet (mostly) airs. There was an older episode of "Louisiana Law" on yesterday (they were still wearing 'vid era face diapers when talking to people) where a young kid (much younger than what's allowed in South Dakota) had shot his first buck deer and his dad and him had been stopped by the Louisiana game wardens in the far north part of the state. The sticking point was that the father and son had killed the deer in Arkansas and were bringing it home whole (although I think field dressed) into Louisiana and that violated current LA CWD regulations. The LA wildlife agents hated having to confiscating the kid's first deer but in the end the dad got fined but the family (and deer) were escorted back into Arkansas-- you know that deer proof surveyor-ed map line across the landscape-- and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Now, I'm not picking the Louisiana game wardens, they were just following their regulations and I suspect most states now have some sort of prohibition of bring whole deer (and maybe elk as well) across state lines. And I get that dying from CWD (how many actual confirmed wildlife-induced cases has there been in the U.S.?) sounds like a horrible way to go but as a retired (well, at least not on Uncle Sugar's payroll anymore) retired scientist (but not a biological or medical one), I have to wonder (because scientists are supposed to ask questions) what are the real (known so far) odds of a person getting CWD from a dead deer or elk..? I think many state agencies now take tissue samples and we hear that CWD is out there but we never hear hear real statistical estimates (yeah, the way science is supposed to work) on the actual risks. Why not...?

However, American society does live with the reality of breast cancer and most of us have either known women who have had it and also known women who have died from it, and I'm very sorry if this has touched you directly. The ratio of breast cancer for American women is something such as one out of every eight women or a 12+% chance. That is massively more than I suspect any chance of people coming down with CWD but governments and the media appear to be much more intent in trying to stop CWD than having real policy issue discussions on why breast cancer rates are so high in America. Why is that...?

Is it because the breast cancer kitty is out of the bag and will never get reigned back in unless some specific things change AND the government entities still think they can stop CWD? Or is it simply that (probably some fighting words here) that breast cancer is a big money maker for the MdIC (and thus campaign contributions to politicians) and CWD is not and never will be?

And/or is it a backdoor way of getting people to stop eating deer as a food source, either by scaring them or outright banning the retail processing of deer in local "locker" businesses? Road killed deer are no longer picked up in my metro area, at least in any real urgency but are allowed to mostly rot away. One reason is that Sioux Falls no longer has a "rendering" plant where fresh but probably past salvageable for human eating deer can be brought to and disposed of at such a business. I don't know why the rendering plant closed but its now the road fact that we deal with on a regular basis. And in SD, a person just can't simply pick up a road killed deer.

But I've regressed. The main reason why I posted all of this is that the chances of people dying from CWD are fairly remote and breast cancer, and death by motor vehicle, are much, much higher. I guess as a society we accept those risks but an odd, new disease we have to go way overboard in trying to prevent. Go figure.

Yes and there has NEVER BEEN a deer FOUND DEAD that wasn’t killed by hunter or auto that tested positive for CWD. EHD will lower a population faster than a gun season. But the money train is CWD. WHY is it not illegal to transport cattle? Goats? Beef industry is too big to mess with

Yes and there has NEVER BEEN a deer FOUND DEAD that wasn’t killed by hunter or auto that tested positive for CWD. EHD will lower a population faster than a gun season. But the money train is CWD. WHY is it not illegal to transport cattle? Goats? Beef industry is too big to mess with

Yes and there has NEVER BEEN a deer FOUND DEAD that wasn’t killed by hunter or auto that tested positive for CWD. EHD will lower a population faster than a gun season. But the money train is CWD. WHY is it not illegal to transport cattle? Goats? Beef industry is too big to mess with

EHD will lower a population faster than a gun season.

Yes and there has NEVER BEEN a deer FOUND DEAD that wasn’t killed by hunter or auto that tested positive for CWD. EHD will lower a population faster than a gun season. But the money train is CWD. WHY is it not illegal to transport cattle? Goats? Beef industry is too big to mess with

Yes and there has NEVER BEEN a deer FOUND DEAD that wasn’t killed by hunter or auto that tested positive for CWD. EHD will lower a population faster than a gun season. But the money train is CWD. WHY is it not illegal to transport cattle? Goats? Beef industry is too big to mess with

NonPCfed, Wisconsin seems to be the polar opposite of SD in how the public is involved with wildlife management. Every armchair biologist is given a voice through or Spring Hearing process, as well as our County Deer Advisory Councils.

I think that’s the problem when a politician starts talking about creating jobs.

Labs for testing CWD pop up.

Yes and test bats for rabies. Post outcome. Doesn’t mean all bats will die from rabies. Did anyone catch what I’ve said all along. ELK VIEWING AREA.
FUNNY how they didn’t mention the % of deer found dead compared to herd size. Yes sick deer are found. Do are all animals. But where are the areas of low numbers that CWD ALONE was reason for low numbers. I’ve seen EHD at its worst. Had a farm that I personally found 18 deer laying in the creek 11 bucks and 7 does. I’ve also hunted “CWD” declared areas and NEVER FOUND one dead deer other than the 2 I put a 270 round through

20 years ago the common thought was any positive deer would be dead within 4 years. Now there is no answers for life span. I personally know of one deer donated to a wild game dinner that was showing no indication of illness. Lack of response from the state agency requested to do the testing showed the deer positive some time after the dinner event. Deer was 6 years old.