Prion disease is now spread through the entire US. Prions exist in soil and grasslands up to 16 years after initial contamination. There is no meaningful plan to rid North America of CWD/CJD prion disease without the complete extermination of all contaminated species as reintroduction of a population into a contaminated area will still result in reinfection up to 15 years later. Prion disease is 100% fatal and 100% communicable.
T.T poor deer.
I wonder how it started; as that could help figure out how to combat it. (like even if it was transmitted from europe or somewhere; this would still require how it started in europe… as this all could help combat it… by strategically giving the deer an anti-virus to combat the effected prions.
Prions are unfortunately not viruses, but misfolded proteins that can be absorbed into grass through the soil and possibly trees; meaning nuts, fruit, vegetables, our crops.
You are most likely correct the CWD/CJD are directly related to Mad Cow prion Disease. Pacific islander cannibals used to catch a similar prion disease from cannibalism.
I see no other option at this point but to issue a nationwide shoot & burn on sight order for any and all infected animals. We’ll need mass testing to determine which states require full extermination at this point and which farmland is contaminated; possibly permanently. God save us.
Humans can acquire prion diseases by consuming brain tissue or other central nervous system tissue from infected animals.
A primary example is variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), which humans can contract by eating meat or food products contaminated with nerve or brain tissue from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), commonly known as mad cow disease. Similarly, the human prion disease known as kuru was historically transmitted through ritualistic consumption of human brain tissue. Prions are extremely resilient infectious agents composed of misfolded proteins that are not destroyed by standard cooking or sterilization methods.
Wolves, coyotes, and other members of the dog family (Canidae) do not catch variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) from eating infected deer or cattle.
Research indicates that canines possess a high natural resistance to prion diseases. Structural studies on the prion proteins of canids have identified specific amino acid variations (such as a characteristic substitution on the surface of the protein) that make it extremely difficult for these molecules to misfold, even when exposed to high loads of infectious prions through consumption.
Because they act as dead-end hosts that do not contract or amplify the disease, predators like wolves and coyotes frequently consume CWD-infected deer or scrapie/BSE-exposed tissues without falling ill themselves. In fact, ecological studies suggest that selective predation by wolves helps remove sick animals from the landscape, reducing the overall environmental load of prions.
Theoretically, the deliberate contamination of the food supply with prions—often studied within the broader context of agroterrorism and food safety vulnerabilities—presents distinct challenges, both in terms of execution and the unique nature of the agents themselves.
From a technical and logistical standpoint, several factors shape how security and public health agencies evaluate this risk:
Sourcing and Production: Unlike bacteria or viruses, prions cannot be cultured or grown in a traditional fermentation vat because they contain no nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) and do not replicate on their own. Producing large quantities of infectious prion material requires either harvesting it directly from the central nervous system tissues of infected animals (such as cattle with BSE or cervids with Chronic Wasting Disease) or utilizing complex, highly specialized in vitro amplification techniques.
Environmental Stability and Resistance: Prions possess extreme resistance to conventional decontamination methods. They withstand standard cooking temperatures, freezing, drying, and routine chemical disinfectants that easily destroy typical pathogens. This resilience means that if introduced into a product, standard food-processing kill steps (like boiling or pasteurization) would be ineffective at neutralizing them.
Incubation and Latency: Prion diseases are characterized by exceptionally long incubation periods, often spanning years or even decades in humans. Because symptoms do not appear immediately, an attack or contamination event would be difficult to trace back to its source quickly, complicating rapid public health intervention.
Logistical and Impact Hurdles: Security analysts note that while agriculture and food systems are recognized targets for economic disruption, biological agents used for mass human casualties typically require high acute infectivity and rapid symptom onset to achieve strategic goals. Because prion diseases have low acute morbidity, variable cross-species transmission barriers, and prolonged timelines, they do not function like conventional acute biological toxins or pathogens.
To guard against both accidental and deliberate contamination, strict regulatory frameworks—such as feed bans, import restrictions, and the removal of specified risk materials (like brain and spinal cord tissues) from the human and animal food chains—are enforced globally to monitor and protect agricultural supply lines.
That is what upsets me most, they are doing so little.
It’s like they do not care how far the damage spreads.
This is the kind of stRuff that really upsets me.
To just let it keep spreading… this should be it’s own emergency & they are CERTAINLY NOT DOING ENOUGH!
At least you have the courage to say something JudasTitor! 
~QS