r/MadeMeSmile • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • May 20 '26

ANIMALS Forever grateful

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u/coloradoautoflowers May 20 '26

It's recently been discovered that CW disease is a communicable prion condition.

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u/sixpackabs592 May 20 '26

Recently? Thought it’s been known for awhile they were testing my dads deer when I was a kid in the early 2000s

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u/coloradoautoflowers May 20 '26

It was just confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt to be communicable this year. The testing before was to monitor the disease pressure in local populations and basically told the game/wildlife people if a local population cull was necessary.

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u/gearwhoreder May 20 '26

“beyond a shadow of a doubt…”

Literally the last sentences from the abstract of the Neurology article: “Although causation remains unproven, this cluster emphasizes the need for further investigation into the potential risks of consuming CWD-infected deer and its implications for public health. Clusters of sporadic CJD cases may occur in regions with CWD-confirmed deer populations, hinting at potential cross-species prion transmission. Surveillance and further research are essential to better understand this possible association.”

I agree this is something that needs to continue to be closely monitored, but it was hardly decidedly concluded to be communicable.

Edit: idk how people quote other comments lol

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u/Deaffin May 20 '26

idk how people quote other comments lol

Put a > in front of the text and it does the quote format.

If you're on PC, you can highlight the text in someone's comment before clicking reply and it will automatically copy/paste that text with the quote mark as well. I dunno if there's a similar functionality on mobile.

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u/ShesTheSm0ke May 20 '26

Can you site your source on this? According to the CDC as of Jan 2026 there are no known cases of CWD being transmitted from deer to humans. They theorize it may be possible via consumption based on the data we have on other prion infections like Mad Cow Disease but nothing has been confirmed as far as they're concerned. CDC Chronic Wasting Disease

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u/coloradoautoflowers May 20 '26

Neurology (the actual name of the journal) is the source, and you didn't fully understand what I said.

I didn't say people catch CWD. I said CWD can cause Creutzfeldt-Jakobs in humans.

Here's one free article that shows how it's communicable from manure to plants. Neurology is paid.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4449294/

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u/ealysillyforestthing May 20 '26

CJD is a prion disease. If a prion causes a prion disease that's being transmissible. It's the same prion, it's just called different in humans

It's all in the article you linkef

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u/ShesTheSm0ke May 20 '26

So this journal is talking about prions in general, including CWD, but the part referencing Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease is linked to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease). From the article you linked "BSE, because of its proven transmission to humans, generating a fatal new disease, termed variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" and then goes on to say "CWD, due to its uncontrolled spread among wild and captive cervids in North America and its uncertain transmissibility to humans and/or domestic animals" keywords "uncertain transmissibilility" which again according to the CDC as of this year, there are no recorded cases of CWD affecting humans. There's also no concrete evidence that CWD leads to Creutzfeldt-Jakobs, although there may be a slight possibility, again via consumption. CWD to CJD

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u/Deaffin May 20 '26

No it hasn't been, that would be massive unavoidable news. It would be Mad Cow 2.0.

There has been occasional outbreaks of clickbait and fearmongering over the idea, though.

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u/Obsidian-Dive May 21 '26

They test deer yearly. My step father works in taxidermy and sends in few glands for them to sample each year.

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u/bowlofspiderweb May 20 '26

If its prion why are they dangerous as domestic pets? They weren’t eating it

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u/Deaffin May 20 '26

No it hasn't, that's clickbait nonsense.

There is only one case in all of history of a prion disease crossing the species barrier to reach humans. That was mad cow disease, and it was the result of feeding cow brain/nerve tissue to other cows over and over for generations on an industrial scale with people constantly eating the end result en masse.

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u/ShesTheSm0ke May 20 '26

Communicable by consumption or contact with the infected deer's brain tissue/spinal cord. You won't get it simply by having one live in your backyard.

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u/Deaffin May 20 '26

You won't get it, full stop.

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u/ShesTheSm0ke May 20 '26

Exactly lol

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u/revdon May 21 '26

That makes the venison bittersweet.