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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lunkerslayer" data-source="post: 419725" data-attributes="member: 217"><a href="https://meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article/50/3/660/123441/Atypical-Chronic-Wasting-Disease-in-PRNP-Genotype" target="_blank">https://meridian.allenpress.com/jwd/article/50/3/660/123441/Atypical-Chronic-Wasting-Disease-in-PRNP-Genotype</a>I read this study but I'm confused about the environment of the paddock which doest tell me if this areas soil was 100 percent infected with prions.Was the infected soil brought in to the paddock area or was this controlled area consisting of a natural existing environment to house these deer.The food was of high quality and if so was the food tested for prions before being given to the deer?Was a one deer infected intentionally and allowed to infect the remaining deer or was the prions in the environment the only way the deer were able to be infected?Was the researchers able to witness by video when one infected deer was able to infect another deer by contact?Or were all the deer who were in this controlled environment paddock infected by prions in the soils?This study is very vague when it comes down to the smoking gun HOW WERE THE PRIONS ABLE TO INFECT THESE DEER IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.perhaps Brock can tell us what this peer review is lacking in context</blockquote>