The legality of bush meat varies by province and season in Canada. The badly folded proteins that can cause mental disease as they propagate their bad fold to o

The legality of bush meat varies by province and season in Canada. The badly folded proteins that can cause mental disease as they propagate their bad fold to other proteins are felt to be causative of CJD or a variant. There are number of these, scrapie, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapie and there are others https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encephalopathy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmissible_spongiform_encep... and this reference in deer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_wasting_disease That part of New Brunswick has a hunting culture and often hunt out of season and often gather other animals besides deer. It is possible that this is an emerging prion disease. It may take 10-20 years to follow this up? cases are sporadic as well as rare.