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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 244271" data-attributes="member: 314">The number of acres affected by CWD in Wyoming is from their own game and fish website.  You have to do some digging, but you can find the 2017 report I think it was with maps that show where CWD has spread since 2001.  It's getting close to the elk feeding locations in the northwest corner of Wyoming.I have not seen the studies you speak of that have found CWD in muscle.  Please foreword those if you can.  No, I'm not concerned with the spread of CWD as I see no evidence that it's a threat to humans or for that matter even the deer.  The areas that have CWD, still have strong deer populations in several states.  Where is this so called doomsday disease that supposed to decimate the deer populations.  Wyoming has had it for 20 years and they still have thriving big game populations.  Deer and elk don't live 20 years normally, so where's the impacts.  Where's the impact in Wisconsin?  or Minnesota? or even right here in ND?  You say Wisconsin has a 30% infection rate, so there should be at least some impacts on the population by now you would think.  Yet there is none that I have been able to find.  It's all speculation, which translates into fear mongering, scare tactics, and emotions.  The CWD prions are found in the soil, just like anthrax and seem to last as long.  I sure don't think about catching anthrax when they till the soil and put up that dust cloud and I sure won't think about catching CWD either.  I have the same feeling about CWD in deer.  When I shoot a deer that looks, acts, feels, and tastes like it should, I'm not going to worry if it had TB, rabies, antrax, CWD, diarrhea, or post nasal drip.  If I feel the need to test every deer for every disease that it could carry that I might catch, I'd have to give up hunting and stay in the house.  People give people diseases all the time, but you wouldn't know it by the way folks act in the bars at 1am scrambling around to engage in all manner of disease transmission activities, but you don't hear even 1% of the fear mongering or scare tactics about those diseases that we are now hearing about CWD.  STD's, Hepatitis, TB, Flu, Colds, and the list goes on.  You won't be giving up hunting because of TB, rabies, anthrax, or any of the deer diseases already found in ND and you don't feel you need to test for these when you decide to eat your deer, so why is CWD different?</blockquote>

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