Cwd podcast that is actually very good

[Telemark]

My wife works at Mayo in one of the brain units.

One of the doctors in the cjd area has some strong feelings on eating cwd positive meat, so I’ll listen to him.

Everyone else is free to make their own decisions though.

Can you elaborate on that? I'd like to know everything he has to say on the subject.

 

[Ben.MN/WI]

Can you elaborate on that? I'd like to know everything he has to say on the subject.

I think my wife was showing off my kids buck pictures and a dr. had some questions about us eating deer and cwd. My wife really knows nothing about the deer we shoot and eat or cwd, so it was odd she was telling me this story that night. So I actually paid attention when she was telling me how her day went!

It was just lunchroom talk without any peer reviewed studies brought up or anything like that. So no new information, just a dr in that area of study referencing his concern and basically reiterating the standard guidelines to avoid eating cwd positive meat.

They see many people die from brain diseases, so they are very aware of the severity of the disease even though the likelihood of getting the disease is extremely low. It the dr. sees a potential link worthy of bringing up, I’ll listen as it costs me nothing to throw away a future cwd positive deer.

I also agree with the other side of the argument that the overall risk is so low it isn’t worth worrying about. It very well might be. But if you dealt with the 1 in a million patients every day the risk may be viewed differently.

 

[Westwind]

I'm listening, and always open to changing my mind. Would just be nice for something of substance to come out. You would think top Mayo docs could prove something already. Millions of people eat venison snack sticks every year. Every stick that came from a locker has the prions in it. Everyone I know eats those things whether they hunt or not. Everyone asks for deer sticks and jerky.

I had never heard of prions until today. Article said they destroy surgical instruments they suspect are contaminated with. Dayam.

 

[Mortenson]

I had never heard of prions until today. Article said they destroy surgical instruments they suspect are contaminated with. Dayam.

How many butcher shops are tossing knives after cutting a deer? Zero. Deer are processed then it's right back to beef and pigs. Everything is contaminated.

 

[Westwind]

Since it’s so rare there must be another step in the deal other than just ingesting.

Or some folks have the right gene or whatever. Hope they figure out a cure either way, just sounds terrible.

 

[Hoytvectrix]

How many butcher shops are tossing knives after cutting a deer? Zero. Deer are processed then it's right back to beef and pigs. Everything is contaminated.

I would counter by saying the dose generally makes the poison, and right now the best we can say is that at least some dose is not a concern for the vast majority of people. Some people may only be genetically susceptible to CJD after magnitudes of exposure.

If a causal link is never found, it will have been quite a bit of waste of venison and butchering equipment. Regardless, I would prefer to not be patient A or B or whatever in some future research publication talking about the first confirmed case caused by CWD in deer.