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trash-and-trash-accessories · 11 months ago

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Chronic wasting disease was confirmed in ungulates in my region. It's so fucking over for us. Chronic wasting disease is highly contagious, incurable, and can't be killed or treated because it's a prion disease. Not a living thing, a folded protein. Can't be destroyed once it's in the body. It spreads via all parts of an animal, not just the brain. It's in mucus and saliva. Meat and blood. It remains infectious in soil and dead plant matter for years.

It can and it will infect humans. There is no reason to think it can't and won't. Such optimism is a lie or a delusion to prevent panic. This is far worse than mad cow. Far more infectious, impossible to contain, faster-acting.

We are fucked.

#chronic wasting disease #prion diseases #mad cow #we are so fucked #the next pandemic #prion diseases are a slow burn but this one is BAD #the anthropocene era #we're in a so highly pandemic-friendly environment right now #this was caused by deer farming but due to the way deer work it spread rapidly to the environment #good fucking luck keeping deer out of anywhere #if you have livestock they ARE interacting with deer

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