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How do you spot a diseased animal, and what's your protocol for dealing with it? It's tricky because the symptoms may not manifest for up to a year and sometim
by LinuxBender 4y ago
How do you spot a diseased animal, and what's your protocol for dealing with it?
It's tricky because the symptoms may not manifest for up to a year and sometimes even longer. This time of year is extra tricky because I get deer that show up late in winter and are emaciated from a lack of food, but it could also be disease. If I suspect a deer is infected I call the game warden and they would come out to put it down and get the lymph nodes tested. There is no other way. Thus far I have not had to do this. The only deer I have lost thus far was one that for sure was starving for too long in the hills and took too long to find his way to me and several last year that played chicken in the highway but that has stopped since I started feeding them twice a day.
I could actually see formaldehyde preserving the prions. I am curious what ph of acid they used. I would be surprised if the bleach I use does not decompose the prions but maybe I have been going through the wrong process all this time. If you can suggest a better procedure I will look into it. I'm not worried about ruining boots.
- kevviiinn 4y agoHow about enzymes? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protease
- LinuxBender 4y agoMaybe. [1] I have several Protease in capsule form and consume them daily. I would imagine that would have to be made into a paste to work on the boots. Honestly I think bleach is fine. There is nothing inherently special about prions. They are just proteins and bleach will rapidly disassemble and denature proteins of any kind out of their 3D structure, some slower than others. I leave it on over night and with heat applied. [1] - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4503822/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4503822/
- COGlory 4y agoMost prions are characterised biochemically by their protease resistance. Proteases will not work sufficiently.
- LinuxBender 4y agoI forgot to add, the reason I know the 3 emaciated deer are not in that condition from disease but rather from malnutrition is that 2 of them are making a recovery. One was too far gone.