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I know, but I still *really* wouldn't eat a damned thing off of a cwd deer, even if I were just about starving. I've seen testimonies of people who got CJD from eating regular venison from fucked up deer. Though I can't substantiate it, it's enough for me. Prions can enter lymph nodes via the lymphatic system connected to the brain. If a lymph node bursts (easy to do this if you shoot at something), it will contaminate everything. Thankfully CWD deer are easy to spot.

There has to be some fuckery going on for CWD to be happening though. It's some shit that barely even existed just 40 years ago. It was never seen at all until 1978. Not a natural disease. I've mostly seen it posited that it exists because of wolf culling. Wolves would naturally kill deer that had a prion before it spread (and canines are resistant to prions).

While I believe this is part of it, I don't think it's the entire reason for it. Out of thousands of years of people hunting deer, someone would have noticed weird deer before 1978, regardless of wolves. Someone would have ended up dying of a prion disease. It's statistically just about impossible, to me, that if this disease were natural, that there is absolutely no record whatsoever of people describing deer that had CWD or contracting CJD symptoms from eating deer meat. And I don't think CJD is natural either. Neither it nor anything remotely like it were described until 1920, with thousands of years of medical literature describing virtually everything else that exists.

I have this proposition to ponder: is there *something* introduced into the planet in recent times that causes the brain of certain types of mammals to short circuit and mishandle misfolded proteins? The oldest prion disease known is scrapie. Which is endemic to sheep and not transmissable to humans. No human prion diseases were ever described until 1920. No deer prion diseases until 1978. Some scant evidence for mad cow disease existed from around the same time as scrapies, but there wasn't a known disease in cattle until 1986. All really fucking recent.