Wildlife biologist Bryan Richards explains CWD/chronic wasting disease.
Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1154: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3s6p2UP57Q
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Wildlife biologist Bryan Richards explains CWD/chronic wasting disease.
Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1154: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3s6p2UP57Q
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Cwd they missed it by a million miles dr Joel wallach
America has a chronic wasting disease. But that's another discussion
6 years later….. Well this aged well
April 2024:
According to a new study, published last week in the journal Neurology, that long-discussed and frequently dreaded transmission of CWD from hunter-harvested deer into human beings might have actually occurred in 2022.
The study title alone is enough to perk the ears of anyone who's followed the CWD epidemic over the years. "Two Hunters from the Same Lodge Afflicted with Sporadic CJD," it reads. "Is Chronic Wasting Disease to Blame?"
The authors go on to highlight "a cluster of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) cases after exposure to chronic wasting disease (CWD)-infected deer." Those findings, they say, are "suggestive of potential prion transmission from CWD-infected deer to humans."
CJD is better known for its association with Mad Cow Disease. Like CWD, mad cow disease is transmitted in cows through mis-folded proteins called prions. And like CWD, it causes a cascade of brain-related maladies that ultimately lead to death in the bovines unlucky enough to contract it. Mad Cow Disease has been shown to transmit to human beings through the consumption of infected beef. When the disease manifests in people, it's referred to as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
The recent paper describes an unnamed hunter who contracted CJD after regular consumption of venison from deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease. "In 2022, a 72-year-old man with a history of consuming meat from a CWD-infected deer population presented with rapid-onset confusion and aggression,"
Those are classic symptoms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. "Despite aggressive symptomatic treatment of seizures and agitation, the patient’s condition deteriorated and he died within a month of initial presentation," the study goes on to state. "The diagnosis was confirmed postmortem as sporadic CJD."
It's NOT a new thing. It's been happening for 20 years… CWD is a brain disease of wild and captive deer and elk that has occurred in Colorado and Wyoming for over 20 years