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Brits on health alert as 'zombie deer disease' could 'pass to humans like mad cow'
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| Tue, Apr 23, 2024
| Mieka Smiles
Posted on 04/23/2024 1:57:24 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
What happens when we get mad cricket disease?
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:08:57 PM PDT
by
bgill
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To: nickcarraway
I remember the issue was prions. Something even smaller than a virus. Basically a chemical that causes the brain to start making copies until it makes the victims crazy.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:10:17 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
To: nickcarraway
CWD is now endemic to most deer and antelope herds in colorado ... i now refuse to eat ANY wild game of any type ...
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:10:31 PM PDT
by
catnipman
(A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:12:33 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: nickcarraway
So...I’m guessing it’s OK to hunt in the Sheriff of Nottingham’s private forest now?
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:14:22 PM PDT
by
moovova
("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
To: nickcarraway
Don’t all the deer in England belong to the King anyhow?
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:16:25 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:18:14 PM PDT
by
Dead Corpse
(A Psalm in napalm...)
To: Nateman
A prion is a protein that is misfolded.
The proteins that can be misfolded into a prion form are present in everyone. But they are folded correctly. In the vast majority of people, they will never misfold.
I think that some mutations make the protein more likely to misfold. And the misfolding is contagious, as if proteins are using misfolded proteins as a folding guide.
When these proteins are misfolded, they can no longer be enzymatically destroyed by the cell. Most proteins are destroyed within hours of being made. But the prions just stick around. This probably has something to do with the pathogenic process.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:19:29 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
To: Allegra
Where’s the oh, noes guy?
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:29:57 PM PDT
by
Jane Long
(The role of the GOP: to write sharply-worded letters as America becomes a communist hell-hole.)
To: exDemMom
You can't kill prions either because they aren't alive. It is more akin to a poison than a virus. Cooking won't help. Freezing won't help. There is no way to prepare infected food which makes it safe.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:31:36 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
I am not sure how to destroy them.
I once talked to a man selling a very high-tech biochemical analyzer. I told him I was not in a position to buy and had no immediate need for it, but he still wanted to talk. And one of the things he told me was that a research institute had purchased one of the analyzers in order to study prion proteins. After the study, they elected to destroy the machine since there is no good way to sterilize it after using it for prions. This was a half-million dollar analyzer. I do not know, in the years since, if adequate methods to sterilize equipment after prion exposure have been developed. Simply autoclaving equipment doesn’t do the job.
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:36:46 PM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/23/2024 2:45:48 PM PDT
by
glorgau
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
04/23/2024 3:04:09 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: CivilWarBrewing
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posted on
04/23/2024 3:07:10 PM PDT
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: nickcarraway
Do they walk around saying , “ BRAINS BRAINS BRAINS “
To: Jane Long
This calls for double panic!
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posted on
04/23/2024 3:20:48 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
To: nickcarraway
Mad Cow Disease. Zombie Deer Disease.
We’re living in a Monty Python epidode.
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posted on
04/23/2024 3:22:23 PM PDT
by
Allegra
(Less propaganda would be appreciated. )
To: nickcarraway
You can eat wild venison 3 times a day and the chance of you being killed in a car hitting a deer is thousands of times higher. STOP DRIVING NOW OR YOU WILL DIE!!
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posted on
04/23/2024 3:34:15 PM PDT
by
Badboo
(A fascist is the one who wants to take your guns. That's how it always starts.)
To: Badboo
I almost hit a Moose but I was driving a 1974 GMC Jimmy and the Moose ran away
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