What should we do about the disease?

[MO-APE]

Guys, don't worry about any of this. CNN just confirmed the end of the world is coming right in the peak of late winter season . Hunt hard while you can!

 

[River1]

Sorry dedgeez, nowhere in my post did I write CWD.


I’d also like to repeat a point I have tried to make every time this topic comes up. For an animal, and I include humans in this, to catch a disease the animal must be exposed to enough of the disease causing organism to cause the disease. I can almost 100% guarantee that you have been exposed to HIV, Hepatits A, B, and C, swine flu, bird flu, SARS, monkey butt fever, whatever, but you didn’t develop the disease. Why? Because you were not exposed to enough of the disease causing organisms i.e. bacteria, virus or prion to cause the disease.

What we don’t know is how many prions, if that is what is causing CWD, that it takes for the deer to be exposed to that will actually cause the deer to develop CWD. To my point, are there enough prions on a licking branch to spread the disease? Are there enough prions on a half eaten ear of corn to spread the disease? Are there enough prions on a mineral block to spread the disease? Nobody can say to a certainty that there is or there isn’t. But which of those examples concentrate and expose deer to a greater number of prions? Which of those examples can we exert some modicum of control over?

I have said this in the past too, we chose to do what we chose to do and if we chose the path of “inevitability” then the inevitable will surely happen.

Glad you posted this Tom. I should have posted something similar a ways back in the thread. Mineral blocks IMO would be similar to licking the rear door handle on the back an ambulance.......and by the way I have seen that done. :way:

 

[buckeye]

Seems to me that all the deer I see spend a good deal of time sniffing, licking, and nuzzling each other {at least the does and fawns}.They lick the same branches, they eat the same food sources and for about a month each year they communicate a great deal with bodily fluids.In the winter they yard up and spend months in large groups frequenting the same areas.Deer are social animals in general.

In the hunting world theres always a kneejerk reaction to "ban" something.I really dont understand it but its there.Up here in the north part of the state if you eliminate all the foodplots the state leaves out on public ground you may slow the spread of CWD but in a bad winter your also gonna have deer starving to death.We dont have much in the way of browse up here and what there is is quickly covered up with a few layers of ice and a few feet of snow.

 

[singlecoyote]

There is zero chance of food plots being banned.

 

[nannyslayer]

All I've got out of this post is, turkeyriver is getting something pregnant somehow, and the rest of the people in here are door knob and ambulance door handle lickers.


As far as CWD, I think we need to worry about the above first, then worry about the deer.

 

[Fishbonker]

My "take home message" from this thread is dedgeez is gonna wrap his all day sucker in a condom so TR doesn't get his (dedgeez's) girlfriend pregnant.

As far as ambulance door handle lickers, well, that is just sick because I know what I have left on ambulance door handles and that was before anybody wore gloves. Yuk. I think I'd rather kiss a syphilitic crack ‘ho than lick an ambulance door handle.

 

[Fishbonker]

In the hunting world theres always a kneejerk reaction to "ban" something.I really dont understand it but its there.

Yup, we all had a kneejerk reaction on the leadshot ban. It appears as if the kneejerk to the banning of the ban may have worked. Well, I guess it all depends on which side of that particular issue you are on whether or not the kneejerk worked.

 

[goatman]

OK I got it. Everyone post pictures of dead CWD deer. Don't believe everything DNR tells you.