Harris Hoke

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Harris Hoke 30 Dec 2023 16:39 UTC
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in reply to: Lao Mein’s comment on: Will the growing deer prion epidemic spread to humans? Why not?
This is a major point that the author does not address. The author assumes that CWD risk is low because BSE risk was low. But there is a huge difference between BSE and CWD that is mentioned in this very article: BSE is largely restricted to neural tissues, whereas CWD is in basically all tissues and bodily fluids. The BSE infectivity numbers would only apply to a disease that is restricted to tissues that are generally not consumed