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If you hunt deer and eat venison you're going to want to stop after reading this
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 1387592:MV80MTU5NTEzXzc1NTgwNTgyXzdFRTIwOUE2] [b]Aerosolized prions can be 100% deadly [/b] "A new study has revealed one short exposure to sprayed prions can be 100 percent lethal in mice. While the discovery doesn’t present any foreseeable public health threat, it comes as a surprise to scientists who study prion-based diseases and calls existing safety rules for laboratories and slaughterhouses into question. "Common knowledge is that prions aren't airborne, and can't cause infection that way," said neuropathologist Adriano Aguzzi of University Hospital Zurich, co-author of a study appearing today in PLoS Pathogens. "We were totally surprised and also a bit frightened at how efficient [airborne infections] were." https://www.wired.com/2011/01/airborne-prions-disease/amp :damned: [/quote]
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Officials monitoring chronic wasting disease, a deadly and severely contagious neurological disorder found in nationwide deer populations, said the illness has now spread to at least 26 states...
The director of the Centre for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, added: “
The key issue here is that unlike the mad cow disease, here we see [chronic wasting disease] in the muscle as well, so it’s actually much more present in the meat that you’re eating. Cooking doesn’t do anything to destroy it."
Dr Osterholm said that it took nearly 10 years to detect human transmissions of the so-called mad cow disease, otherwise known as the variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
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