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> plants that grow over the soil where deer with CWD decompose can transmit the disease to animals that eat them I've heard this before but the last I tried lo
by complaintdept 2y ago
> plants that grow over the soil where deer with CWD decompose can transmit the disease to animals that eat them
I've heard this before but the last I tried looking into it I could only find a single study with these findings. Do you know if this was ever replicated? If so, I'd be interested in reading it -- I have to wonder how careful the researchers were to isolate the raw plant material from the contaminated soil, which may have non-plant matter transmitting the prion. Plants transmitting a prion is just hard for me to believe.
- A_D_E_P_T 2y agoThat single study came out like six months ago: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223025051 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422... It'll probably be a year or two until an attempt at replication is published. Anyway, the details are all there. It's an open-access paper. (I'm enjoying this new trend where almost everything worth reading is published in open-access journals.)
- flobosg 2y agoHere’s a study from 2015: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124715004374 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112471...
- complaintdept 2y agoThanks, sibling to this comment posted the one I was thinking of. The study you posted appears to confirm their findings. This is...alarming.