Chronic wasting disease (CWD), sometimes called zombie deer disease, is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) affecting deer. TSEs are a family of diseases caused by misfolded proteins called prions and include similar diseases such as BSE (mad cow disease) in cattle, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans, and scrapie in sheep.[2] Natural infection causing CWD affects members of the deer family. In the United States, CWD affects mule deer, white-tailed deer, red deer, sika deer, elk, antelope, caribou, and moose.[3] The transmission of CWD to other species such as squirrel monkeys and humanized mice has been observed in experimental settings.[4]
What the FUCK, I don't want to see where this movie goes
It has been around long enough that it seem human transmission is really really unlikely. Don't eat deer brains or CNS tissue thought because no one wants to be patient zero and I don't trust random deer meat.
To make a point that prions are not "alive" they are not bacteria or virus they are misfolded proteins. In a sense they replicate much like a cancer with no end goal besides growth.
What the FUCK, I don't want to see where this movie goes
Damn, even the frutal jerks wont touch the CWD venison
I'm sorry, humanized mice? What did we do to mice?
Fucking YIKES
I’ll stick with lentils.
Can't get prions from plants, just sayin'
Great. Now you've gone and jinxed us. But I think I finally understand what happened in the movie "The Happening".
Right!
Hate to be that guy…
Do you have a documented case of someone being infected with prions from eating plants?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10700824/ 😬
Can you do a backflip?
Extra microorganisms? Yes please! That’s free protein!
I don't think prions are considered microorganisms are they?
No, but they are free protein
Only a little misfolded
Tru dat
Lmfao
It has been around long enough that it seem human transmission is really really unlikely. Don't eat deer brains or CNS tissue thought because no one wants to be patient zero and I don't trust random deer meat.
To make a point that prions are not "alive" they are not bacteria or virus they are misfolded proteins. In a sense they replicate much like a cancer with no end goal besides growth.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1pjtmcs/two_deer_hunters_from_the_same_lodge_both/
No not really - this was around same day as this article
I like those odds.
Free food and subsequent hospital stay?? Thats easy living! Sign me up!