Can I get CWD or a related disease from eating the meat of an animal with CWD?
At this time, scientists believe that chronic wasting disease has not produced CJD or other disease in people who eat deer or elk meat. Researchers have been alert to the possibility that it could, because during and after the outbreak of mad cow disease in Europe, vCJD appeared and was almost certainly caused by eating beef products taken from infected cattle. Researchers point out that as many as 80 million people consumed products contaminatedy mad cow disease, and so far 131 people have died of vCJD. Skeptics say that the incubation period of all TSE diseases is very long, and we may not have seen the last of vCJD deaths. Sheep scrapie apparently does not produce disease in humans-people have been eating every part of sheep for centuries, and no case of human scrapie has been documented. 5. But didn’t some people die of a brain disease after eating game meat? Yes. In 1999, CJD was diagnosed in three Americans in their late 20s and 30s, all of whom had eaten deer or elk. Extensive i
