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Investigating Chronic Wasting Disease
windows writes "The Saint Louis Post-Dispatch has an article in today's newspaper on efforts by many states to test for chronic wasting disease. The disease affects deer and elk, and is similar to Mad Cow Disease in how it destroys brain tissue giving it a spony appearance under a microscope. Due to the rapid spread of the disease recently, most states are enlisting the assistance of hunters to provide brain stems of deer, to test for the disease. The purpose of this study is just to determine how far geographically the disease has spread. It is not yet understood how the disease is spread or if it is a threat to cattle or humans."
I wasted my share of chronic... I never thought it was a disease!!!
..I thought I was wasting away because I sit inside reading Slashdot on lovely sunny Sunday afternoons.
This just in: researchers have found symptoms of Chronic Wasting Disease in various Slashdot editors. Details at 11.
Of course they could always mount the head on the wall, then one day while they are standing under it the nail lets loose and the antlers of the trophy runs through their neck.
Run and catch, run and catch, the lamb is caught in the blackberry patch.
I'm chronically wasted. Does this mean they're gonna have to shoot me and test my brain stem. Geez, I hope not. Or, if it has to happen, I hope they do it when I'm really, really wasted. That way I won't feel it. Just an idea. Dude.
Well, you turn the deer brainstems over to the government, and eat the rest of the deer. Five years later, some people knock on your door, and when you answer it, they shoot you and take your brainstem. Then they compare the brainstems, and see whether you contracted this disease from eating the deer you killed.
Ten years and millions of government dollars later, they announce their research findings: "While it appears that eating deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease will not cause you to be infected by the disease, our research indicates that deer hunters are at a high risk of sudden death."
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
It's supposed to be News for Nerds, not News for Herds.
'hunting' sounds pretty much like 'sniping'. you take a gun, and shoot something unsuspecting from far away. at least you (hopefully) eat whatever it is you killed, as opposed to the snipers who just ran away. i'm sure it gives you a rush to kill things, but it's still murder.
I guess hunters will have to start hunting other non-human species like lawyers, politicians and financial advisors.
So, you think disinfo.com is a reliable source, do you? Most of us prefer to get our hard news from sites that don't have special "aliens", "conspiracies", "mind control", and "drugs" links in the sidebar.
I spent some time last summer wandering around Walmart stores in Eastern Kentucky last summer, and I can tell you, poor Americans don't need any more meat, or anything else to eat.
I've spent time in poor Asian countries in my day, and I can assure you - really poor people don't weigh three hundred pounds.
I'm not that old, but I can remember when hillbillies were skinny. Times change.
I bragged about my Karma at a job interview but I didn't get the job.
furthermore since aids is most likely to be transmitted by sexual contact... it has no place in "news for nerds"
I don't eat living things.
I make sure they are properly dead first.
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