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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BrockW" data-source="post: 420318" data-attributes="member: 5910">In some places yes, they have. That research has literally shown us the impacts on a population level. In other places, like Wisconsin, the disease has not yet outpaced reproduction. Again, research has shown this.  But in every single research effort ever done, GPS collar data shows additive mortality. Every. Single. One.There are folks working on vaccines, therapeutics, genetics, modeling, inoculation/transmission, landscape remediation, and honestly the funds spent on cwd are a drop in the bucket compared to human health. Cancer research alone is a multi-billion dollar a year industry. I question whether or not CWD research has hit a billion dollars since 1967.But I think it’s safe to say, at this point, cwd probably poses a minor risk to humans. Even if it crosses over, I doubt it will become some wide spread disease in humans. Maybe I’m wrong, but given what we know about prion diseases in humans, it seems unlikely. The possibility it would also be contagious is a bit creepy…One of my biggest concerns, outside of its actual documented impact to deer herds, is that this jumps over into cattle. New strains are coming along and if one of those manages to jump to cattle, I fear that will have grave consequences to wild deer, livestock operations, the economy, and public perception. What do we think is going to happen if cattle start getting this from deer?</blockquote>

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