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<blockquote data-quote="Fly Carpin" data-source="post: 240843" data-attributes="member: 1187"><p>You're right, the data don't give us a clear cut answer as to what is happening and how. Is banning all potential for concentrated supplemental feeding a knee-jerk reaction? Damn straight it is. You'll get no argument from me about that. I also don't know the right answer. Start soil remediation for all positive testing areas? Probably not. But we do know that the prions that cause scrapie and CWD can persist in the soil for years. And that the prions can be taken up by plants and enter the system through digestion. We also know CWD has a long incubation period. Most deer are dead before the effects of CWD hit them. There is a ton of misinformation out there, put forth by both the pro-captive deer crowd trying to minimize the issue, and also the chicken littles of the world saying this is the end of all cervids in North America. The answer is somewhere between as always. I'll keep looking for peer reviewed research with some actual statistical analyses.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Fly Carpin, post: 240843, member: 1187"] You're right, the data don't give us a clear cut answer as to what is happening and how. Is banning all potential for concentrated supplemental feeding a knee-jerk reaction? Damn straight it is. You'll get no argument from me about that. I also don't know the right answer. Start soil remediation for all positive testing areas? Probably not. But we do know that the prions that cause scrapie and CWD can persist in the soil for years. And that the prions can be taken up by plants and enter the system through digestion. We also know CWD has a long incubation period. Most deer are dead before the effects of CWD hit them. There is a ton of misinformation out there, put forth by both the pro-captive deer crowd trying to minimize the issue, and also the chicken littles of the world saying this is the end of all cervids in North America. The answer is somewhere between as always. I'll keep looking for peer reviewed research with some actual statistical analyses. [/QUOTE]

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