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Many of you have probably heard about Prions and Papua New Guinea but the end of the article discusses new prion diseases showing up in deer within North Americ

Many of you have probably heard about Prions and Papua New Guinea but the end of the article discusses new prion diseases showing up in deer within North America. The idea that human's could get a prion disease from deer meat, coupled with a potentially long incubation period, is frightening. Living in a hunting community I may avoid eating deer for the foreseeable future.

dnautics 10y ago
it's highly unlikely... There's a (probably directed, weighted) graph of species-species transmission potential, and it does seem to obey some rough distance rule, which does NOT correlate necessarily with species distance rule. We think that cows can transmit to humans; cows and sheep can co-transmit. (if you have a sheep with scrapie sharing a pasture with cow, the cow can get mad cow disease). deer though do not seem to transmit to cow, even though CWD is super common in deer and deer and cow pasture together pretty much everywhere in the US except maybe hawaii. Here, a transgenic mouse with human prion protein is resistant to CWD transmission; but the same mouse with elk protein is susceptible. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19336896.2015.1118603?src=recsys& http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19336896.2015.11...
- Blueskytech 10y ago
  That's really great information thanks for sharing
  - dnautics 10y ago
    Here is a really good review: https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/66/1/199/284812/Other-animal-prion-diseases https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/66/1/199/284812/Other-a...
- maxerickson 10y ago
  Identification and containment is also a management priority: http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10366_54559_59155-396994--,00.html http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10366_54559_59155-3...
- SerLava 10y ago
  Hawaii too- there are a handful of deer and a ton of cows on the Big Island.
- arwhatever 10y ago
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5hTF2pw-4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5hTF2pw-4s

dnautics 10y ago

it's highly unlikely... There's a (probably directed, weighted) graph of species-species transmission potential, and it does seem to obey some rough distance rule, which does NOT correlate necessarily with species distance rule. We think that cows can transmit to humans; cows and sheep can co-transmit. (if you have a sheep with scrapie sharing a pasture with cow, the cow can get mad cow disease). deer though do not seem to transmit to cow, even though CWD is super common in deer and deer and cow pasture together pretty much everywhere in the US except maybe hawaii. Here, a transgenic mouse with human prion protein is resistant to CWD transmission; but the same mouse with elk protein is susceptible. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19336896.2015.1118603?src=recsys& http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19336896.2015.11...

Blueskytech 10y ago
That's really great information thanks for sharing
- dnautics 10y ago
  Here is a really good review: https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/66/1/199/284812/Other-animal-prion-diseases https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/66/1/199/284812/Other-a...
maxerickson 10y ago
Identification and containment is also a management priority: http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10366_54559_59155-396994--,00.html http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-10366_54559_59155-3...
SerLava 10y ago
Hawaii too- there are a handful of deer and a ton of cows on the Big Island.
arwhatever 10y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5hTF2pw-4s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5hTF2pw-4s