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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 399203" data-attributes="member: 605">I don't like articles like this. Dr. Osterholme stood in front of the Minnesota legislature and said, "zombie deer disease." That went viral. It shook a lot of money loose from the general treasury. This article depicts sportsmen in a negative way. The picture is of a fallow deer. If they got that wrong, then why is what they print right? <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/oh-deer-chronic-wasting-disease-wildlife-to-human-crossover-raises-concerns/ar-BB1i7pcp" target="_blank">https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/oh-deer-chronic-wasting-disease-wildlife-to-human-crossover-raises-concerns/ar-BB1i7pcp</a><img src="https://assets.msn.com/staticsb/statics/latest/views/icons/ArticleImageFullscreen.svg" alt="Fullscreen button" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BB1i7n1w.img?w=768&h=576&m=6" alt="A deer with antlers peers through a bush" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A deer with antlers peers through a bush© Provided by India Currents<h2>Infectious disease threatens public health</h2>Each fall, millions of hunters across North America make their way into forests and grasslands to kill deer. Over the winter, people chow down on venison steaks, sausage, and burgers made from animals.These hunters, however, are not just on the front lines of an American tradition. Infectious disease researchers say they are also on the front lines of what could be a serious threat to public health: chronic wasting disease.The neurological disease, which is contagious, rapidly spreading, and always fatal, is caused by misfolded proteins called prions. It currently is known to infect only members of the cervid family — elk, deer, reindeer, caribou, and moose.<h2>Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)</h2>Animal disease scientists are alarmed about the rapid spread of CWD in deer. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00401-022-02482-9" target="_blank">Recent research</a> shows that the barrier to spillover into humans is less formidable than previously believed and that the prions causing the disease may be evolving to become more able to infect humans.A response to the threat is ramping up. In 2023, a coalition of researchers began “working on a major initiative, bringing together 68 different global experts on various aspects of CWD to really look at what are the challenges ahead should we see a spillover into humans and food production,” said <a href="https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/michael-t-osterholm-phd-mph" target="_blank">Michael Osterholm</a>, an expert in infectious disease at the University of Minnesota and a leading authority on CWD.“The bottom-line message is we are quite unprepared,” Osterholm said. “If we saw a spillover right now, we would be in free fall. There are no contingency plans for what to do or how to follow up.”<h2>A potential outbreak</h2>The team of experts is planning for a potential outbreak, focusing on public health surveillance, lab capacity, prion disease diagnostics, surveillance of livestock and wildlife, risk communication, and education and outreach.Despite the concern, tens of thousands of infected animals have been eaten by people in recent years, yet there have been no known human cases of the disease.Many hunters have wrestled with how seriously to take the threat of CWD. “The predominant opinion I encounter is that no human being has gotten this disease,” said Steve Rinella, a writer and the founder of MeatEater, a media and lifestyle company focused on hunting and cooking wild game.They think, “I am not going to worry about it because it hasn’t jumped the species barrier,” Rinella said. “That would change dramatically if a hunter got CWD.”</blockquote>

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