Chronic Wasting Disease and Mad Cow Disease are found in some meat animals

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Re Viruses, prions and other dangers to humans consuming meat.

Here is an interesting post regarding Chronic Wasting Disease

(a disease found in Canada and the USA? which may be very

similar to Mad Cow Disease). Mad Cow Disease has killed many people

around the world and scientists and politicians originally tried to

cover up the severity of the disease and the link to human deaths.

At one time a politician in the UK made his daughter eat a beef burger

on TV to show beef was safe to eat....of course we now know this to be

untrue.

Will CWD be found to be as dangerous as Mad Cow Disease (to both animals

and humans?)

Hunters beware... (Meanwhile in the USA, West Nile Virus, a virus also

deadly to

humans and carried by birds etc, is being found to have

a wider and wider host range).

 

 

Hello Marguerite,

 

thought you might be interested in this one - of course there is no

way to " prepare " deer or elk which might have CWD so that it is not

contagious, any more than it is possible to " prepare " beef in such a

way as to not transmit BSE.

 

 

NORTHFIELD, Ill., Nov 12, 2002 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Recent

diagnoses of wildlife with chronic wasting disease (CWD), a

neurological disease similar to mad cow disease in cattle that affects

deer and elk, has caused hunters of game to take additional

precautions this year. Proper handling of game is essential to

protecting consumers against all food-borne illnesses, including

CWD....

http://www.meatandpoultryonline.com/nl/1502/468699