So I whatched a 2 hr podcast on CWD. I’ve read up on this disease several times the last few yrs.
I do not understand that the only way the experts appear to want to fight CWD is to kill every deer in the neighborhood.
This PHD says that 20% of the herd is infected. It has a 2 yr incubation time during which the Deer is contagious. It is 100% fatal. Soon the entire herd will be infected so the deer herd needs to be thinned out to extinction from the way I understand it. HELL I THOUGHT THIS IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO PREVENT.
I could understand this way of thinking except that the prions that cause the disease basically live forever and there is no natural way to kill them so even if you wipe the herd out ten yrs later the next group of deer will get reinfected.
If these biologists were human doctors they would be ran out of town on a rail.
I do not understand that the only way the experts appear to want to fight CWD is to kill every deer in the neighborhood.
This PHD says that 20% of the herd is infected. It has a 2 yr incubation time during which the Deer is contagious. It is 100% fatal. Soon the entire herd will be infected so the deer herd needs to be thinned out to extinction from the way I understand it. HELL I THOUGHT THIS IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO PREVENT.
I could understand this way of thinking except that the prions that cause the disease basically live forever and there is no natural way to kill them so even if you wipe the herd out ten yrs later the next group of deer will get reinfected.
If these biologists were human doctors they would be ran out of town on a rail.
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