Fastnought
11-29-2007, 02:43 AM
From the CDC...
Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals. They are distinguished by long incubation periods, characteristic spongiform changes associated with neuronal loss, and a failure to induce inflammatory response.
The causative agent of TSEs is believed to be a prion. A prion is an abnormal, transmissible agent that is able to induce abnormal folding of normal cellular prion proteins in the brain, leading to brain damage and the characteristics signs and symptoms of the disease. Prion diseases are usually rapidly progressive and always fatal....
Prion Diseases (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/prions/)
Fatal chronic wasting disease continues to spread among wild deer and elk herds in an ever-widening region. Most affected states have initiated monitoring programs for wild and for farm-raised deer and elk. Hunters have been advised not to eat the eyes, brain, spinal cord, spleen, tonsils, or lymph nodes of any deer and not to eat any part of a deer that appears sick. The recommended procedure is to gut the deer, remove the head, cut meat from the bone with a knife without cutting through bones, and remove all fat, membranes, and cords from the meat. Hunters also should wear rubber or latex gloves when field-dressing animals, minimize contact with the brain, spinal cord, spleen, and lymph nodes, not use household knives or utensils for field dressing, and clean all knives and equipment with a 50/50 solution of chlorine bleach and water.
For full article, re.... http://www.neurologyreviews.com/apr03/nr_apr03_wildgame.html
Prion diseases or transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans and animals. They are distinguished by long incubation periods, characteristic spongiform changes associated with neuronal loss, and a failure to induce inflammatory response.
The causative agent of TSEs is believed to be a prion. A prion is an abnormal, transmissible agent that is able to induce abnormal folding of normal cellular prion proteins in the brain, leading to brain damage and the characteristics signs and symptoms of the disease. Prion diseases are usually rapidly progressive and always fatal....
Prion Diseases (http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/prions/)
Fatal chronic wasting disease continues to spread among wild deer and elk herds in an ever-widening region. Most affected states have initiated monitoring programs for wild and for farm-raised deer and elk. Hunters have been advised not to eat the eyes, brain, spinal cord, spleen, tonsils, or lymph nodes of any deer and not to eat any part of a deer that appears sick. The recommended procedure is to gut the deer, remove the head, cut meat from the bone with a knife without cutting through bones, and remove all fat, membranes, and cords from the meat. Hunters also should wear rubber or latex gloves when field-dressing animals, minimize contact with the brain, spinal cord, spleen, and lymph nodes, not use household knives or utensils for field dressing, and clean all knives and equipment with a 50/50 solution of chlorine bleach and water.
For full article, re.... http://www.neurologyreviews.com/apr03/nr_apr03_wildgame.html