Ryank65
12-08-19, 08:21
I was reading a lot about Mad Cow Disease in the UK and from multiple websites it said that they estimate 3 quarters of a million infected cattle were consumed by the British population from 1980-1996. That is A TON OF MEAT!!!! If those statistics are true and that much contaminated meat was consumed how come we are not seeing thousands and thousands of people dying from CJD in the UK? How come it’s only like 200 people in past 25 years? What does that say about infection from contaminated meat? Is it hard to contract even if you do eat infected meat? Do we have partial brain barriers that can block infection or are some people more susceptible than others? Did people only get sick from eating brain and spinal meat? Is eating normal contaminated meat fine? Lots of unknowns about this disease but one thing is for sure is that I now believe this isn’t something to be taken lightly.
Reason Im asking is because I live in the United States (Wisconsin), where Chronic Wasting Disease is now a huge deal in the news. The similarities between Chronic Wasting Disease and Mad Cow are frightening. My family and I hunt in a county where 12 deer were positive out of 354 tested. Im concerned about contracting the disease from the deer we never got tested 2 years ago and another deer we got 3 years ago. Im concerned for my family and my neighbors and friends who I have given meat too. We grill out and make venison jerky all the time. We don't eat spinal or brain matter but I have no idea if the butcher we take it to even uses precautions to make sure untested deer blood doesn't mix when butchering. Should I be concerned about contacting the disease from the deer I've eaten? I have anxiety about m family or I contracting CJD years from now.
Reason Im asking is because I live in the United States (Wisconsin), where Chronic Wasting Disease is now a huge deal in the news. The similarities between Chronic Wasting Disease and Mad Cow are frightening. My family and I hunt in a county where 12 deer were positive out of 354 tested. Im concerned about contracting the disease from the deer we never got tested 2 years ago and another deer we got 3 years ago. Im concerned for my family and my neighbors and friends who I have given meat too. We grill out and make venison jerky all the time. We don't eat spinal or brain matter but I have no idea if the butcher we take it to even uses precautions to make sure untested deer blood doesn't mix when butchering. Should I be concerned about contacting the disease from the deer I've eaten? I have anxiety about m family or I contracting CJD years from now.