Lost in Translation: CWD Podcasts

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Remember this: As dead flies cause even a bottle of perfume to stink, so a little foolishness spoils great wisdom and honor. ~Ecclesiastes 10:1~

As always, this is for educational purposes. We are going to examine the content of this issue as it is one more rabbit hole to fall into. Woooooooo Hoooooo! Here we go!

I was playing Russian Roulette with trying to figure out which video this was about because there was at least three that I saw. 

For the record, farming deer to me is so weird. Looking at a high fenced area with cattle ear tagged deer in it is just strange to me.

While doing my trolling of imminent domain on the social medias, I heard a voice cry out from a post that he was unhappy with what he saw on a podcast on CWD. I saw Uncle Ted having a meltdown in a post over the same issue, but he sprinkled another diabolical menace on top of it. 

I cannot wrap my head around the same behavior these people have of posting declarations that reminisce like Corporate speak, that I have become highly allergic to hearing. I am breaking out as I type. When I hear the jargon, "misinformation", I get itchy fingers. 

Let us think about good etiquette. If you are going to complain about someone's podcast, at least when you ship it to the complaint department, do not elude that it is 60 percent crap without providing your own corrective outline for why said podcast content is guano. Then point elsewhere for clarification to the complaint. So here it is:

Video One, Summary the Deer Farmer:

Commentator says the podcast he watched about CWD is 60 percent incorrect as given by the guest. Points out that the podcast host needed to get more information from other sources in the deer farming industry. Commentator states the Deer Farmers are the only ones out here trying to beat CWD. EHD kills more deer per year than CWD has killed in history. Cars kill more deer in fall than CWD in history. Commentator requests that he talk to people on the other side. Commentator gives two names (well respected in the deer farming industry) that can explain the battle. Deer farmers are fighting CWD not because it is on the farms, but deer farmers are trying to find a cure. Commentator claims guest isn't doing jack shit about finding a cure. List questions on what the guest is doing in terms of breeding for SS Neg GEBV. Makes claim the guest is not doing anything except talking. 

I was a wee lad........

This guy was really passionate about this podcast because he is a deer farmer it would appear. This video was recent. The name drops for this dude is Chris Ezell and Shawn Schafer, but it looked like he was throwing shade at Jason Sumners. You may ask who are these people?

Video Two, Summary of Uncle Ted on EHD and CWD (which he has several):

Uncle Ted was interviewed by someone who asks him is the state more concerned with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) or Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease (EHD). This post was logged 10-09.

Uncle Ted replies this is the Uncle Sham horror story of his lifetime. Someone is wasting a lot of money studying CWD, which evidence shows it hasn't hurt a deer herd based on annual recruitment in productivity. People can't get CWD, has not hurt a deer herd. The powers that be are not paying attention to EHD, which has confirmed over the years to kill millions of deer. Stated a wipeout in multiple states. Uncle Sham and the game departments aren't concerned about it. He doesn't know what motivates Uncle Sham and the game departments; they are just not good people. 

There are several videos that he is stating there is little proof to CWD. 

I am not refuting. I am just gawking and a looking. 

Let's look at the players in this drama. A well-known hunting personality that scribbles a sentence or two, two people affiliated with the North American Deer Farmers Association, a deer farmer, and the intrepid Director of the Missouri Department of Conservation, who is a biologist. He is on the board of the National Deer Association.

Let us interject another item of etiquette. If you are trying to debate with someone from an opposing perspective, do not insult their experience and knowledge. For you would not want to be treated that way. Stay focused on what you are debating or inserting as additional perspectives or information. 

At the same time, you have to look at the reference in which they are speaking. If the person is speaking on a location that is not in your vicinity, the factors could be completely different, and this will have a certain amount of effect on the situation or the outcome from their relative stance as it satellites or comets you. 

This diatribe is writ to illustrate how opposing sides, or groups from different sectors of an industry should communicate to get the most out of their respective stances. If you are providing substance versus someone who eludes that substance is on the horizon, you might have lost me there, and I will go on my own to find out what is the matter. 

Now I must watch this podcast and move through space and time to see what pissed this guy off so bad. On to the video that appears to be from a month ago unless it is on re-spin.

 

(Intermission as I watch said video). Let's watch it together; maybe more than once. * Hands popcorn *

As I am watching the video this sticks out to me, we have the complaint and this Deer Biologist is catching disrespect. The Deer Biologist is concerned with deer populations in the wild. If you watch it, the Deer Biologist clearly tells the podcaster that he supports scientific study provided by captive deer facilities and hopes they continue. He states he doesn't want to disparage anyone, yet the deer farmer makes the statement this Deer Biologist isn't doing crap. I wonder if he has ever worked for a state agency? 

Maybe the dude walked out on that part to get a beer. 

The Deer farmer and his affiliates are concerned with their herds that are in a fence like a control group. They can feed them what they want, do artificial insemination, monitor for cross contamination, give them ivermectin, selectively breed for genetics and pass traits, and other factors. These deer are in a bubble. They treat them like cows or pigs, as they have ear tags with a number and can be sold at auction. They are not wandering wild.

Once again, this is so weird to me. I was a wee lad......

I wondered if the first person was slightly annoyed because the captive cervid industry was a blimp on the screen in these videos. 

Here is the second video I watched: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18-sVWUIwLE

The title of this one is, The Truth About Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) / The Meateater Podcast Ep. 766. This video was a year ago. It had the same podcaster going back and forth with questions with his guests, these two researchers that were from the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study. This podcast was informative because I remember watching it when he put it out. 

Captive deer are not treated with the bulk of the podcast but in filming you do have to worry about pacing. There is always room for the next video. At 1:43:21 The Genetics and Resistant deer debate covered it somewhat. I wondered if this was what he was talking about.

The captive deer and the wild deer at large are biologically the same with variations in their genes. Supposedly, the genetics of these captive cervids can put off the CWD affliction. The issue I see with this is you have two groups of  animals, wild and captive, that are not living the same life but eventually can overlap if things get so bad that they want to turn the captive animals loose on wild populations to breed out the prion issue. Yet, when one walks into a party, they can be carrying a deadly weapon of disease that no one sees coming now you have a carousel of rotating new problems. I think I heard someone say they did this in Oklahoma. I would have to double check. 

Let us get back to the point. If you are going to watch any kind of material on anything, it would be a good idea to not rage bait with a complaint or elude to some conflict or problem without sitting down and actively listening to what is being plated for you from the piece of media you are complaining about. If you can sit in the woods for hours paying attention to every little squirrel fart and turkey toot, I am sure you can find it in your soul and stomach rumblings to grasp the concept and provide your own.

Listening and paying attention is a skill. Such as this....

Corn and plants can take up CWD prions from bad soil into the roots, stems and leaves in controlled settings; think of all those GMO corn piles out there in the world that all the animals are playing over.  Did you know a coyote or a mountain lion can eat it and poop it out? Or the following scientific research about human genes and cervid prions. Get you a snacky-wacky and have a good read. Feel free to click on any of the following for a jump scare. You can check out the following:

Generation of a New Form of Human PrPSc in Vitro by Interspecies Transmission from Cervid Prions

Prions in Plants? A new concern for chronic wasting disease

Susceptibility of Human Prion Protein to Conversion by Chronic Wasting Disease Prions

Distribution of chronic wasting disease (CWD) prions in tissues from experimentally exposed coyotes (Canis latrans)

CWD prions remain infectious after passage through the digestive system of coyotes (Canis latrans)

Detection of prions from spiked and free-ranging carnivore feces

Large animal models for chronic wasting disease

After you read the first research article, are you trying to tell me that someone couldn't have cooked this up in a lab, flush it onto the world, and walked off kicking dirt up behind them? I am not saying this couldn't exist naturally but I don't want the burger either.

Let us see what kind of attention span you have after reading the above.

At this point, I don't understand what the man was ragging about so I got to go find it. Maybe they are doing some strange stuff on those deer farms still. Get in the truck and lets go stake them out and look for clues.....

When you get right down to it. We are all concerned and want to find a resolution to the problem. 

~Courtesy of the AOFH~

The Deer Were Strange

Image by Adam Zubek-Nizol

Remember this: Never underestimate one's ability to level up in their deviltry. If you do not know what it is, do not diagnose it. 

Given the recent events in the political arena with the current administration, I think its time for Spooky Tales of Horror. Turn down the lights, get a cup of cocoa and light a candle. Lean in. 

In my previous blog about Chronic Wasting Disease, I put forth the idea of birds being a possible vector in how the deer became strange. I am neglecting EHD, rabies, brain abscesses, etc.

As I was falling down rabbits holes, I fell into the biological weapons hole. Yeah, more angst. 

Lets start in the 30s and the 40s when countries were running around being bad little kids trying to figure out how to get their lick backs.

But first, lets keep this in mind. I wondered if there was another time where the deer acted strange. I couldn't really find anything except the Kaibab deer crisis in the 1900s. It was said that Teddy Roosevelt wanted to eliminate the natural predators and so he did. Yet, on the Kaibab Plateau region of Arizona a consequence of this was the usual deer population explosion which was thought to lead to mass starvation yet something was causing the deer to act abnormal in search for food. What did this mean act abnormal in search of food?

I have yet to find any documentation on this time in history.

Let us carry on....

Chronic wasting disease is noted to incubate over 2-5 years before symptoms appear. Once symptoms manifest, the disease can progress rapidly  with death in a few months. I am just using this one because it was the indicator in the 1967 incident. That could be a hallmark for possible biological weaponry.

 

A rather novel credo: Expose, Infect, Deflect, Deny

Lets look at the short list of times countries thought it was a good idea to put a booger on the person they dislike. This tended to be brucellosis, anthrax, bubonic plague, glanders, rinderpest, smallpox, tularemia, etc.

Let us start "The List":

1900 Germ theory in bacteriology

1925 Geneva Protocol-prohibited the first use of chemical and BW against enemy nationals in the international armed conflicts

1932 first BW research facility established at Army medical school in Tokyo. The next year there was brutal human testing near Manchuria. Just go research Ishii Shiro. He was trying to be a one man Hydra. 

1934 Italy, Rome. They were doing something with BW but it never took traction.

1937 Canada was using this projectile called a British Mark 1, which was a 4 lb bomblet (I like this word. Rolls off the tongue). It was filled with tularemia and brucellosis. They used Anthrax as well.

Somewhere in here Hungarians were exploring their version of a charcuterie biological weapon in the form of glass bombs but it didn't achieve aerosols and was problematic.

1940 Japanese Army Air Force bombed Ningbo with ceramic bombs full of bubonic carrying fleas

1942 Operation Vegetarian aka Britain Cattle Cakes. Britain used anthrax laced linseed cakes laced with spores to attack German soldiers.

1942 1700 Japanese troops died from a rebound attack that killed their own forces

1945 Japan planned a plague attack on San Diego, Ca during operation Cherry Blossums at Night. It was never executed due to Japan's surrender.

1948-1992 there is a place called Vozrozhdenie Island aka Rebirth island that was once in the Aral Sea. The sea began to shrink. This place was infamous for being a Secret Soviet Union Biological Weapons testing facility. Pathogens such as anthrax, smallpox, and others were tested and weaponized in the open air. The island is now a contaminated area with abundant wildlife. It has abandoned labs and toxic burial sites. 

2019-2020 Covid. I still think its strange that Biden appeared to me to know there was something bad coming. How is it that the common cold per Merck's manual becomes this thing that kills a lot of people in high population areas. It is said that it came from the Wuhan animal slaughter markets, or escaped a lab. 

I read one article by Jin Hong Yoo, "On the Controversies Surrounding the Lab-Leak Theory of Covid 19,in the Journal of Korean Medical Science, that states, "The third hypothesis is that the virus was deliberately engineered by the Chinese government or military as a biological weapon. This theory, however lacks scientific credibility for multiple reasons. Most notably, if the virus were indeed developed as a bioweapon, there should have been a pre-developed vaccine or antidote to protect the developer's own population, which is a fundamental principle in biological warfare. In reality, China suffered massive losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is implausible to assume that any government would orchestrate such a self-destructive act."

I wondered if this is like 1940s Asian biological warfare where the government would take the loss in the population because they got to many people anyway. It keeps them from looking guilty and accountable. It is called abnegation. Governments have been known in the past to turn on its own constituents.

We can see that biological warfare makes its birth in hospitals, laboratories, inside many creaturas, schools, etc.

 

The reason for someone to produce such a thing is diabolical but when you are fighting a war, its justified in some way. 

Long games are played all the time in history on political stages and in secret. What if someone either on purpose, or not, made a situation where the deer acting strange is just a long game to destroy the wild herd and take away the one thing hunters quest after. Its like a tiered system. Take out the most loved to kill the weapons. Kill the commercial feeder animals to attack the food supply. Destroy the farmer so he can no longer plant the grain. Once you stop the food supply, you have rendered people helpless to a degree. Remove the natural places where there is nothing left of the soul of a country.

We saw it in a Movie, "Leave the World Behind", where the deer are a sign of impending natural disaster. There was the cargo ship shoring itself on the beach. I am not saying this is true, but its odd. I am saying a lot of things are odd. 

Its like dominos; quiet dominos that you can't see falling because it is a slow process like decay and decline. You don't know its manmade because everyone is telling you that its the natural process. Yet something in your soul says revolt.

It could be Nature throwing out an event that isn't influenced by man but what if it were a possibility? And who is the guilty culprit(s)? 

What I am saying is, when an organism comes down with a disease be it viral, bacterial, or other, busy little hands can take it to a lab and try to repackage it as Marvin the Martian's little ray gun and aim it at all of us under the sun. This is why I think it is a bad idea to colonize space. People don't have any sense down here. Its not going to change up there. It will be all about Death Star 47 and no planet will be safe. Think about it.

With technology being created and its ability to read an animals genome, gene-editing, people on secret boats in international waters, scientists in their lab trying to discovery every mystique and kill it from asshole to appetite, why do we think human hands can't collect the new mutation and edit, add, or delete a new horror and throw it back into the human fishing pond?

The Audacity!

How is that for a conspiracy theory?

~Courtesy of the AOFH~

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Citation and useful links:

https://theanimalecho.woah.org/en/biosecurity-for-sustainable-development/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12040609/

Southern Gothic Festival 2025

 

Remember this: "Terror made me cruel." ~Emily Bronte~

I went to the local Southern Gothic Festival in Camden, South Carolina over the weekend.  I am side questing. The weather was showing out with its dismal dreary rain that overcast the Historic Camden Revolutionary War Park. I am out looking for scary moments and ghosts in old wartime haunts. This is a free literature festival with several names so next year pen it down and come out. 

I met Kassidy Plyler of the Catawba Cultural Center. Her talk, Catawba Stories & The Trickster Spirit-History, Folklore, and the Unseen, is an overview of Catawban folklore and storytelling traditions centered around the trickster. Miss Plyler reflected on oral histories, mythologies and cultural resilience and how it shapes indigenous identity. She is an absolutely wonderful person to talk to. 

I tried to use my time wisely due to the overlap in different speakers giving their talks in different buildings on the campus.  

The next panel I sat down for is Folklore, Fear and the Family, Crafting the Modern Southern Gothic. The authors speaking are Allison Gunn and Emily Carpenter. Their talk is centered around how inherited myths, haunted landscapes, and family legacies continue to shape Southern Gothic.  Allison Gunn drew from Appalachian and Deep South folklore. Both authors were referencing generational and regional storytelling through the lens of trauma and how it creates a framework for writing on the line between fear and inheritance and how it is evolving with each new generation of Southern Gothic writer. 

Allison Gunn is debuting her novel, Nowhere. Emily Carpenter has been tapped to have her novel, Gothictown, turned into an AMC television show, so that is in the works. Their panel talk is very informative and encouraging to the new writer to Southern Gothic. Great questions were asked in reference to how each went about their process for developing the driver of the stories. 

I did sit in for the panel, Spirits of the South-Religion, Ritual, and the Southern Gothic Imagination. Dr. Jeffrey E. Anderson, Professor of History at University of Louisiana-Monroe, did bring a lot of clarification to the different questions that were asked. His book, Hoodoo, Voodoo, and Conjure: A Handbook, focuses on black southern communities, resistance traditions and African American spiritual practices. 

The practitioner, Tayannah Lee McQuillar, on the panel wasn't helpful due to lack of verbal content. Her input would have been better if she would have separated her sacred practice and spoke more on the use of impostor Hoodoo and other cultural practices to develop story and ambiance without sacrificing personal practices. If she would have spoken from that perspective she would have been more engaging for the audience. Her tarot card deck is, The Hoodoo Tarot and The Sibyls Oraculum. Her stance as I was hearing her talk in short sentences is one of a person that believes different races have a separate supernatural world and we are all divided up based on race when we die but then maybe not but that is how it came across. I don't subscribe to that train of thought. I respect her point of view as it pertains to her. 

There was a third speaker on this panel, Dr. Heather Freeman, who is a Professor of Communications and Media Studies and creator of the podcast, Magic in the United States. She explores esoteric and spiritual  traditions across American history through media, storytelling, and scholarship. She didn't speak much either but some of the questions were not address to her. I guess everyone is into Voodoo? 

Image by Yulia Gapeenko

The best of all the speakers was Dr. Abigail Lundelius Smith. She current serves as instructor of Rhetoric and Literature at New Aberdeen College in Charlotte. Dr. Lundelius's talk is Flannery O' Connor-See the Sacred In the Grotesque. Flannery O'Connor used the grotesque to uncover that point between the sacred and the profane where redemption is hiding around every page, or corner. 

She talks about O'Connor picking up the baton of gothic horror by Edgar Allen Poe, who was a walking embellishment of all things descriptive that could happen to a character in the gothic genre.

Even though Flannery O'Connor had lupus she went on to live to 39 before she exited the world. One of her best quotes is, "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." She has several works to read from such as, "The Complete Stories" and "The Habit of Being."

The final speaker of the day is Dick Harpootlian, the prosecutor of Pee Wee Gaskins. Harpootlian's talk is on his release of his book "Dig Me A Grave." Pee Wee Gaskins was a notorious serial killer from South Carolina. I remember he once pulled up to the gas pump at my grandfather's store and he was driving his hearse. People would always ask him what was in the coffin in the back. Terribly enough, it was probably a victim of his. Harpootlian spoke of how charismatic Pee Wee was and how he somehow could talk people into doing things for him such as blowing up a law office with C4, and reaching out to Harpootlian himself to speak to him and subsequently try and plan the kidnap, ransom, and murder of his daughter by having his son do the reaching from jail for Pee Wee. Pee Wee was a hot mess. He would burn down his father's tobacco barns and lurk around hunting victims. There was one moment where Harpootlian stated that Pee Wee Gaskins had took the officers out to a location to lead them to the body. When they got there, the officers found a group of men waiting. They felt like somehow Pee Wee had communicated to the outside and those men were there to help him escape. This made me ponder, if those men were willing to help him escape, then it wouldn't be to far of a jump that those same men, who were privy of his killings, were probably in on it with him, or at least were complicent in his dastardly deeds.

If you would like to ready more about this case try Harpootlian's book. There are other books you can reference for this period in South Carolina history.

Overall, it was a great time. I ended it with a seafood boil and hit the road back home. 

Wonder what else I can get into?  

~Courtesy of the AOFH~

Copyright © 2012 All Rights Reserved.

The Transmission: Nancy Drewing CWD Part I

Remember this: Sometimes where you get that itchy twitch of intuition that something is not right-you have to go with it. 

I am on a research bender one night at a job I was experiencing. This job was an eight hour stint of watching Barneys in the woods, phone calls, coloring, and a lot of free time looking at all things wildlife. The nature of the rabbit hole I am free-diving into is rabies. After swimming around that paddling pool, I decided I had a bad case of the lets-go-look-sees.

I began to read about Chronic Wasting Disease. It was a thing during another job I worked over a season at a wildlife processing facility and brain samples were being turned in to local wildlife agencies for their biologists to examine and study on the hunter time-dime. 

Much like any other online Nancy Drew, I started the old keyboard up and pulled up more tabs with different reseach and ideas that my screen started to look like a dating application. Read-click the X-goodbye info.

I began to follow the trail. This began my reading into the Adventures of the Suspicious Researchers of 1967's Colorado Division of Wildlife's Foothills Wildlife Research Facility a.k.a. The National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC). All I can say is vague. There is no real definitive paper on this burp in time. 

Let me set the scene. 1967 Fort Collins, Colorado is the origin story or legend of where this went down. Some captive Mule Deer were taken from the wild in Northeastern Colorado to a specific facility  as part of a winter survival and nutrition research study. The deer appeared in good health per researchers. They get put in with some sheep and disaster ensues.

It took an act of Congress to find the human suspects: Mike, Terry and I. Mind you, when I look for these three people in other research you can't find them. It is like they are part of some secret military operation where whatever happened has been buried somewhere, never to be seen again. Infect, Deflect, and Deny. 

I perused an article entitled, "Chronic Wasting linked to Fort Collins for 50 years", by Miles Blumhardt on The Coloradoan website. The person Blumhardt initial fingers as the guy is Gene Schooveld. Schooveld is a retired Colorado Division of Wildlife Senior Wildlife biologist who lived in Fort Collins.

On this website you can hear Mike Miller, Colorado Parks and Wildlife senior wildlife veterinarian is informing the reporter about the goings on. It does appear he isn't so clear on the retelling of historical events, probably due to the absence of info. He does go on to say that the deer dying kept ruining good research experiments. This made me think that they must have re-upped with a couple more clutches of deer before hair pulling and gnashing of teeth ensued from the frustration. If you watch the video provided you see that it is an area with grass set against hills and some protection from the elements. The area appears to be unproblematic as shown. We don't know what the conditions were at the time of the research. 

My understanding there were twelve deer in with unnumbered sheep. You don't know how long these deer were alive but if it takes 1.5 to 2-2.5 years for Chronic Wasting to bring an animal to its end, how is it that these deer died so fast. Mike Miller states they appeared healthy. That would mean that those deer were infected in 1965-66 because this is noted as an event in 1967. The research was suppose to be on nutrition over wintering and natural deer history. Upon closer inspection, it reads like an ill-handled scientific inquiry where the ball was fumbled for lack of a better word. 

What areas specifically did these sample deer come from? How did they bring them to the facility? Were they in a cattle trailer that wasn't sanitary? Was there no physical exam? Why were they not quarantined from other species due to their designation as a sample group? What were the researchers feeding those animals that was suppose to help them over winter? What exactly was the structure of the research? What happened to the sheep that was being used by CSU to conduct Scrapie research? What was really going on there? Why is it that in 2025 you can look at a map and it still a hotbed of eyestrain? What is everyone missing like the nose on their face? 

Here look at this (click on it to make it bigger):

I sat back and thought there is someone out there doing the dissection and sample collecting for sampling but what about the other factors that go into solving this mystery? There is no location except Fort Collins. If they are stating the deer came from different areas of northeastern Colorado then one of the deer had CWD. Their exposure comingling with the sheep, human hand, or some other unknown could have caused the exposure. Were the deer there long enough to indicate the CWD gobbled them up after they were put together in the pen with the sheep. Information lost to history or in the annals of the NWRC.

This situation moved through time and space to that map above. I am going to tell you now this is where my research car goes off the road into a rabbit hole(s). 

I looked at the above map and thought, it is still there like a blazing field of red poppies. Why? The only thing I could think of is birds. Think about it. The mass migration of birds that appear in spring leading up to winter. Then you have the pockets of CWD far away places like Norway that had a reindeer infected, Canada, and South Korea. There is even an article from the Coloradoan that is about the mass migration of birds from all over. 

I wondered what birds could migrate from Norway or South Korea and what about those areas around Canada? 

The examples are the Black-faced Spoonbill and artic tern:

Arctic Tern

Blackfaced Spoonbill

 

These are marsh or shore birds and require to some degree a water body.

The birds that are around Fort Collins as an example are Common goldeneye, American tree sparrow, and lesser scaup.

Lesser Scaup

 

Common Goldeneye

American tree Sparrow

My first untested hypothesis is that somewhere in these birds migratory plans, something might be contributing to the CWD. Stopover locations that give migratory birds a pitstop are subject to scrutiny. There is the idea of migratory birds that practice fecal sac business. My research on this is there is not a lot of testing done. The birds either gobble it or dispose of it outside of the nest at some location. The reason I state this is, "For example, the widely held belief that all CWD occurrences can be traced back to a single Colorado research facility has precluded wildlife and animal health professionals from considering that some outbreaks may be arising from unrecognized exposure events that occur repeatedly over time." (e.g., Williams & Miller 2003, Greenlee et al. 2015) 

My second untested hypothesis is during the 1967 research shenanigans something was done or not done that elicited a situation where the twelve mule deer met with a moment of destiny that has changed the course of cervids history either through poor research practices or secret research practices of the military and biological warfare plot twist. Trust me that crazy rabbit hole exists to the Nth power. 

Because the word transmit is used for the mobility of the prion, something within or outside of the life of the ungulate is making it susceptible for infection even though this is a sub-viral protein. Sub-viral meaning agent are pathogenic, can cause disease but lack viral properties. Subviral agents are satellites, viroids, prions, defective interfering particles, viriforms, and obelisk. 

I most likely will revisit this because I am still researching on the topic. Strange things are definitely happening at Fort Collins. If its not the deer, it is the rabbits. What is next?

If you can learn anything from this it is building a sound research study with plenty of documentation and observations no matter how futile or stupid it might appear and communicating forward in time if the problem at hand becomes a persistent ghost in the future. If an exposure begins all it will do is spread. If you can't stop the spread, therein lies the problem because if Nature can't stop it on its own, then who or what will?

~Courtesy of the AOFH~

Copyright © 2012 All Rights Reserved.

Citations:

Miller, M. W., and J. R. Fischer. 2016. The First Five (or More) Decades of Chronic Wasting Disease: Lessons for the Five Decades to Come. Transactions of the North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference 81: in press.

Chronic Wasting linked to Fort Collins for 50 years. 2018 August 30.The Coloradoan.https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2018/08/23/cdc-tse-mad-cow-chronic-wasting-disease-linked-fort-collins/878097002/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2680674/#ref-list1

https://www.defenceiq.com/air-land-and-sea-defence-services/articles/prions-as-bioweapons

https://ndupress.ndu.ed/Portals/68/Documents/occasional/cswmd/CSWMD_OccasionalPaper-12.pdf

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27449/chapter/3