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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 272431" data-attributes="member: 314">Thank you Dean for proving my point!!  The first references "some" animal studies, of which I have read most of the painfully few that have been done, and most are not peer reviewed or contain the requisite sample sizes for a statistical analysis to reach even a 90% confidence interval.  A 95% confidence interval is the standard for all scientific publications by the way.  So which studies are being used here????  The second quote is a guess of what may or may not happen, which AGAIN proves my point that nobody knows if CWD is even a threat.  Lots of things are "possible" and or "probable".  It's possible and probable that CWD will prove to be of no significance to either deer or people.  Is that not just as valid a statement as that made by Michael Osterholm??  "To date, there  have been no reported cases of CWD infection in people. However, some  animal studies suggest CWD poses a risk to certain types of non-human  primates, like monkeys, that eat meat from <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/cwd-animals.html" target="_blank">CWD-infected animals</a>  or come in contact with brain or body fluids from infected deer or elk.  These studies raise concerns that there may also be a risk to people.  Since 1997, the World Health Organization has recommended that it is  important to keep the agents of all known prion diseases from entering  the human food chain""Michael  Osterholm, the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research  and Policy at the University of Minnesota stated that “it is probable  that human cases of chronic wasting disease associated with consumption  with contaminated meat will be documented in the years ahead,” going on  to add, “It’s possible the number of human cases will be substantial and  will not be isolated events"</blockquote>

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