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Message: <blockquote data-quote="deleted user" data-source="post: 391552" data-attributes="member: 1778">Lunk, for most I think the problem most have is that they accept CWD is real and spreads naturally; but that it is not as harmful as advertised and trying to control it is futile. The 2017 study was conducted was a vector study. They needed the intended result which is why they used a large dose nasally. It wasn’t suggesting that it how it is spread naturally. Transmission is about as proven as how humans catch colds. Here is published literature from 2022. My issue is at the advisory board meetings the guys who are there to argue against CWD control try to shout down everybody. They deny any peer reviewed CWD research while suggesting the game and fish implement non-peer reviewed solutions or demand that they implement “studies” they have neither the funding or facilities and personnel to conduct.<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9316268" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9316268</a>“Horizontal transmission can occur by direct animal-to-animal contact or indirectly the environmental fomites. Epidemiological of natural CWD spreading in captive mule deer found that in cohabitating animals, horizontal transmission is highly efficient, with an estimated incidence rate of 89% in herds where vertical transmission was excluded”…”mating, fighting, through saliva, blood, mucosal tissue…”</blockquote>