...during hunting season. Give the poor critters a break. Between hunters disease and cougar I'm surprised deer aren't extinct.

hasn't jumped but I won't a take chance I'm like that
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/01/17/578582087/concerns-grow-that-infected-zombie-deer-meat-can-jump-to-humans

Pronounced, "Yonies".

"Paratuberculosis or Johne's disease is a contagious, chronic and sometimes fatal infection that primarily affects the small intestine of ruminants. It is caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis."

Everything I've ever read about Johne's says it is always fatal. I've seen varying statistics on its prevalence in both dairy and beef cattle, anywhere from 10% to 90%, mostly because the animals are slaughtered before they become symptomatic, usually around age 5.

I learned all about it when my pet Brahma steer came down with it in CA. Commonly called wasting disease. Highly contagious, no vaccination. My Cowster got it from the evil neighbor's cattle running over onto my farm. It causes SEVERE diarrhea, and rapid weight loss. Finally had to go ahead and put my sweet peppermint-eating boy down.

Had my goats tested, and they were negative. When I was dealing with it, they were just starting to suspect it in deer. It's associated with Crohn's disease in humans--what Glenn Frye of the Eagles died from.

I've just started eating some beef again, after years not. Probably unwise. Last I heard, the FDA does not test for it.

I know a man in England who died of Crohn' s just a few years ago. My b.i.l. is now badly suffering and will probably died within the next year, perhaps two.

"In both the United States and Sweden, Crohn's disease is more common in urban areas than in rural areas (Eisen and Sandler, 1994). It is more common in white Americans than in blacks (Garland et al., 1981; Sonnenberg and Wasserman, 1991), in Jews compared with other ethnic groups (Eisen and Sandler, 1994; Yang et al., 1993), and in smokers versus nonsmokers (Calkins, 1989; Tobin et al., 1987). The disease can affect more than one member of a family, and rare clusters of Crohn's disease have been reported (Bennett et al., 1991; Lashner et al., 1986; Meucci et al., 1992; Yang et al., 1993). There could be a cohort effect of age in Sweden (Ekbom et al., 1991) and in Scotland (Kyle, 1992) where persons born between 1945 and 1950 have a higher prevalence of Crohn's disease."

Found here:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK207651/


There are so many reasons not to eat beef.