PMS was chosen for a common women's disease only because "mad cow disease" was already taken.
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Mad Cow disease found in deer
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@Leatherhead gonna die
This is slightly different from Mad cow disease, but all variations are from the same contagious defective protein. It has been found in sheep and cattle for ages. It only recently crossed over into deer and elk. And it IS transmissible by normal body tissues and bodily fluid or feces, and there is a very small risk of transmission through cooked meat, though it is mainly concentrated in the spine and brain. It also stays active in the environment for many years.
This is mainly in the Midwest and North so us Southern hunters don’t have much to worry about for the time being, but it will probably make it’s way down in the next 20-30 years.
There is currently no cure, other that wiping out populations and hoping it works out of the environment before new cerevids move in and catch it.
This is mainly in the Midwest and North so us Southern hunters don’t have much to worry about for the time being, but it will probably make it’s way down in the next 20-30 years.
There is currently no cure, other that wiping out populations and hoping it works out of the environment before new cerevids move in and catch it.
Not exactly related but about a month ago a buddy and his dad came down to hunt. His dad shot a doe and when we got it back to clean it noticed worms all in the chest and stomach cavity when we dropped the guts. Figured maybe they were on the outside because a bullet or bone fragment punctured the guts. But after skinning it out seen a bunch of worms in the hams. And when you cut into the meat deep and looked there were more inside. None of us had ever seen anything like it. At least not in deer. They said they had seen something similar in hogs. So I called a local processor I know and he said it happens. It’s not common but he sees it in about 1 out of every 100 deer. Said it is some sort of bacterial infection. He said when they get one they won’t process it. They will replace the meat with some they have or let the person come pick it up and process it themselves because it’s not dangerous in frozen and cooked meats but he doesn’t like the idea of putting meat like that out the door.
