Posted on 10/18/2018 7:38:17 AM PDT by C19fan
According to a recently-uncovered medical case from 2015, one man may have died after eating one too many squirrels. His penchant for squirrel meat seems to have inadvertently exposed him to an incredibly rare fatal brain disorder, the first time this disorder was ever contracted in the United States.
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease is a rare brain disorder caused by misfolding brain proteins called prions. Prion proteins are unique in that when one is misfolded, it causes other prion proteins to misfold too. These misfolded proteins are unable to function properly, and the result is that the victim suffers from memory loss, dementia, psychosis, loss of coordination, and eventually death.
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Mike Drop.
Brunswick Stew was also very popular among 19th century politicos - they’d serve it up before speaking to voters at outdoor rallies and events. I have many recipes for it. I only had it once - in Owensboro, KY.
“Can those critters, bugs be cooked out?”
Nope, cooking or boiling does not destroy the offending prions.
The Philadelphia Inquirer had a series of articles spread over several years about a CJ cluster in eastern Pennsylvania-New Jersey. I think it was in the 1990s.
The investigation found that many of the sufferers had eaten at the dining room at Garden State Race Track in Cherry Hill, NJ.
There have been many other articles in other publications about the spreading of prions from Virginia up to New York state. Experts said the prions were soil-borne and that cows and deer have been infected and hunters have been infected.
I don’t know why this article said this was the first existence in the USA. It’s not true.
one reason i won’t eat wild game from Colorado ...
https://www.denverpost.com/2018/05/21/chronic-wasting-disease-deer-elk-moose-colorado/
no. cooking does not destroy prions ...
https://www.webmd.com/brain/mad-cow-disease-basics#1-3
Sounds like Trump Derangement Syndrome to me.
last summer our family, who regularly has to shoot squirrels to keep them from over running the place, decided to do several different recipes with squirrel. We wanted the kids (teenagers) to experience killing them, then skinning and cooking them... something to experience just in case the world went a little crazy in the future. It was actually a great experience and breaded squirrel is really good!
Whew...I am confident that I will never suffer that fate.
I don’t eat anything’s brain.
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