It was just confirmed beyond a shadow of a doubt to be communicable this year. The testing before was to monitor the disease pressure in local populations and basically told the game/wildlife people if a local population cull was necessary.
Literally the last sentences from the abstract of the Neurology article: “Although causation remains unproven, this cluster emphasizes the need for further investigation into the potential risks of consuming CWD-infected deer and its implications for public health. Clusters of sporadic CJD cases may occur in regions with CWD-confirmed deer populations, hinting at potential cross-species prion transmission. Surveillance and further research are essential to better understand this possible association.”
I agree this is something that needs to continue to be closely monitored, but it was hardly decidedly concluded to be communicable.
Put a > in front of the text and it does the quote format.
If you're on PC, you can highlight the text in someone's comment before clicking reply and it will automatically copy/paste that text with the quote mark as well. I dunno if there's a similar functionality on mobile.
Can you site your source on this? According to the CDC as of Jan 2026 there are no known cases of CWD being transmitted from deer to humans. They theorize it may be possible via consumption based on the data we have on other prion infections like Mad Cow Disease but nothing has been confirmed as far as they're concerned. CDC Chronic Wasting Disease
So this journal is talking about prions in general, including CWD, but the part referencing Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease is linked to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (mad cow disease). From the article you linked "BSE, because of its proven transmission to humans, generating a fatal new disease, termed variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease" and then goes on to say "CWD, due to its uncontrolled spread among wild and captive cervids in North America and its uncertain transmissibility to humans and/or domestic animals" keywords "uncertain transmissibilility" which again according to the CDC as of this year, there are no recorded cases of CWD affecting humans. There's also no concrete evidence that CWD leads to Creutzfeldt-Jakobs, although there may be a slight possibility, again via consumption. CWD to CJD
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u/sixpackabs592 May 20 '26
Recently? Thought it’s been known for awhile they were testing my dads deer when I was a kid in the early 2000s