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Sam<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@Shanmonster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Shanmonster</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrionDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrionDisease</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CWD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prion</span></a> </p><p>Prediction: As the mis-folded protein (prion) contamination spreads, it is inevitable that it will contaminate lands used to graze Bison, Cows, Sheep, Goats, Pigs and Boar. </p><p>In time (not all that much time) all of these will cease being foodstuffs in the United States.</p><p>In decades ahead this implies that Beef, Lamb, Pork and Goat, along with Bison, Deer, Elk, and other cervids will cease being food in North America, and Scandinavia.</p><p>Let that sink in.</p>
Sam<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@Shanmonster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Shanmonster</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrionDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrionDisease</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CWD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CWD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prion</span></a> </p><p>Extent of Chronic Waisting disease updated to February 10, 2025 in North America.</p><p><a href="https://www.usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/science/expanding-distribution-chronic-wasting-disease" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">usgs.gov/centers/nwhc/science/</span><span class="invisible">expanding-distribution-chronic-wasting-disease</span></a></p><p>Save the data &amp; graphics before they disappear.</p><p>CWD is now in 35 States, 4 Canadian Provinces, Norway, Sweden and Finland. And in captive cervids in most of those, plus Quebec and South Korea. </p><p>The major transmission route is fecal-oral. I.e. fecal contaminated land. And once contaminated the land can transmit the disease for 1,000+ years.</p>
Sam<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@Shanmonster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Shanmonster</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrionDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrionDisease</span></a> </p><p>March 2022 extent:</p><p><a href="https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/full_width/public/media/images/NA_CWD_Tribal_Lands_2022_03a.jpg?itok=J4rCXl-X" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws</span><span class="invisible">.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/full_width/public/media/images/NA_CWD_Tribal_Lands_2022_03a.jpg?itok=J4rCXl-X</span></a></p>
Sam<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@Shanmonster" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Shanmonster</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrionDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrionDisease</span></a> </p><p>This started with "downer" cattle fed to Mink in Montana. 10,000 were released with wasting disease when the fur trade collapsed.</p><p>It then showed up in deer and elk in Colorado It has spread ever since in a fecal-&gt;oral transmission as more and more land is contaminated. ALL hooved animals are at immediate risk, and those that eat them (us).</p><p><a href="https://extapps.dec.ny.gov/images/wildlife_images/cwdprogression2022.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">extapps.dec.ny.gov/images/wild</span><span class="invisible">life_images/cwdprogression2022.jpg</span></a></p><p>It is inevitable that it will involve cattle, pigs, sheep, ... It is only a matter of time.</p>
Shantell Powell<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@samohTmaS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>samohTmaS</span></a></span> I'm also keeping a nervous eye on the prion disease the deer on the west coast and in the prairies have. <a href="https://inspection.canada.ca/en/animal-health/terrestrial-animals/diseases/reportable/cwd" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">inspection.canada.ca/en/animal</span><span class="invisible">-health/terrestrial-animals/diseases/reportable/cwd</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PrionDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrionDisease</span></a></p>
In Search of a Better World<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@harriettmb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>harriettmb</span></a></span> Prion diseases are <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheGreatFilter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheGreatFilter</span></a>. They are slow to start, but once they do crop up, they inexorably move up the foodchain, wiping out all before them. It is a slow extinction, but a steadily advancing one. </p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GreatFilter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GreatFilter</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSE</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PrionDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrionDisease</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MadCowDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MadCowDisease</span></a></p>
RustyBertrand<p>I often wonder how many people are running around with mad cow disease in the US?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PrionDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrionDisease</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cannibalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cannibalism</span></a></p>
Cameron Lamp<p>I will never forgive the universe’s f*ed up irony for letting a demented man oversee the U.S. at the start of the transmissible Alzheimer’s pandemic </p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Covid19</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/PrionDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PrionDisease</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/TransmissibleSpongiformEncephalopathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransmissibleSpongiformEncephalopathy</span></a></p>