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The link is not 100% but two hunters eating from the same deer population and falling ill at around the same time is extremely unlikely to be a coincidence.

We are essentially one mutation away from this spreading between humans and that would be very, very bad.

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[–] POKEMONGOTOTHEGULAG@hexbear.net 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

If anything this just shows how cowardly hunters are. Who tf shoots a clearly diseased animal and then takes it home acting like they shot it on their own merits?

[–] coeliacmccarthy@hexbear.net 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

plenty of CWD deer don't show symptoms yet

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Putting it out of its misery and not wasting what could be good venison meat?

Sounds more merciful than shooting a young healthy animal.

But I don't know, I don't hunt.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If the poor thing's visibly suffering from CWD, it absolutely is not good meat. When I was living in the sticks, I didn't know a single subsistence hunter who'd eat a visibly-diseased buck-- the sport hunters might've still gone after them, but I don't tolerate sport hunters in my physical locality, so I don't talk to them.

[–] nephs@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks for pointing out my mistake. :)