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No Medical Studies Planned
On NY CWD Deer Feast!

From Patricia Doyle, PhD
By Karen Davis, PhD
4-22-5
 
Hello, Jeff - Another 'Beyond Belief' story! If they do not follow up with long term study of those who ate the CWD infected deer meat at the Firemen's feast they will be able to continue saying that there is NO EVIDENCE eating CWD infected meat is harmful to human health.
 
I am sure they do NOT want to find cases of vCJD or sporadic CJD in those who ate the meat. State and Local health officials won't have to lie, they simpy won't follow up.
 
The deadly and outrageous cover-up continues.
 
Exerpt:
 
Dr. Ermias Belay was the report's principal author but he said New York and Oneida County officials are following the proper course by not launching a study.
 
"There's really nothing to monitor presently. No one's sick," Belay said, noting the disease's incubation period in deer and elk is measured in years. "This was one carcass, one meal. It was an animal without symptoms. If it becomes an issue, if other studies suggest there is a risk, we have a list to go back to."
 
This is such ludicrous nonsense.
 
Of course, people are not sick NOW, it has only been about one month. We don't know how CWD will effect humans, a study would enable us to determine incubation time. There have been clusters of sporadic CJD in hunters who had eaten deer meat. Following up on those who ate infected deer meat would give us so many answers and eliminate the "fuzziness" i.e. the relation between CWD and human health.
 
It was only ONE carcass, One meal....and?
 
Patricia
From VegSource.com
 
 
Health Officials To Wait And Watch Humans
Who Ate Mad Deer Carcass At New York Banquet
 
By Willian Kates
Associated Press Writer
4-17-5
 
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- After 350 people at a sportsman's dinner ate venison from sick deer, a scientist says now is the time to launch a study to determine if the fatal chronic wasting disease could spread to humans who ingest infected meat.
 
Chronic wasting disease _ CWD _ was detected earlier this month in two private captive deer herds in central New York's Oneida County, the first time it was found outside the Midwest or Rocky Mountains.
 
Scientists say they're still learning about CWD and can't say for sure if it could be transmitted to humans, but state and local health officials say they have no plans to study the people who ate the meat last month.
 
That's a missed opportunity, said an animal disease expert with the International Society for Infectious Diseases.
 
"Currently, the disease and the speculation surrounding the disease far out reaches any real science about the disease," said Tam Garland, a professor of veterinary medicine at Texas A&M University.
 
"New York has the opportunity to do an epidemiological study ... Seldom are we presented with such an opportunity to study humans," Garland said.
 
One of the infected deer from Oneida County was served at an annual banquet on March 13 at the Verona Fire Department.
 
The Oneida County Health Department made a list of those who attended the dinner and sent them letters to give them accurate information about CWD and reassure them it does not pose a health risk to humans, said Ken Fanelli, a department spokesman.
 
About 70 people called the county health department after getting the letter, Fanelli said.
 
"No one was particularly concerned or fearful," he said. "Most just wanted more information."
 
The venison was served in steak, chili, stew, sausage and meat patties, health officials said. No organs or bone product from the deer was served, the parts scientists test when looking for signs of CWD.
 
State health department spokesman Robert Kenny said although no medical studies are planned, the list prepared by the county health department will allow officials to quickly locate and contact the people if the need arises.
 
In 2004, scientists at the federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta issued a study on chronic wasting disease that stressed the absence of any evidence linking CWD to humans. Authors, though, acknowledged the study was limited in geography and sample size and so it couldn't draw a conclusion about the risk to humans. They recommended more study.
 
Dr. Ermias Belay was the report's principal author but he said New York and Oneida County officials are following the proper course by not launching a study.
 
"There's really nothing to monitor presently. No one's sick," Belay said, noting the disease's incubation period in deer and elk is measured in years. "This was one carcass, one meal. It was an animal without symptoms. If it becomes an issue, if other studies suggest there is a risk, we have a list to go back to."
 
Belay noted that the CDC also is involved in long-term human medical studies in Colorado and Wyoming, where the disease has been endemic for more than two decades. He said they don't know definitively if people there have eaten meat from infected deer.
 
"If people are going to get CWD, these people would be among the first because of their earlier and longer exposure," Belay said.
 
In New York, authorities have so far confirmed five infected captive deer. The state Department of Environmental Conservation is testing the wild deer population in Oneida and Hamilton counties to determine if the disease has spread beyond the two domestic herds. They are killing about 450 wild deer in central and northern New York to test for the disease.
 
One of the key questions to answer is how the disease leapfrogged from Illinois _ which had been the easternmost state to detect CWD _ to New York. DEC spokesman Michael Fraser said it did not appear to be the result of natural animal migration.
 
"The leading theory is that it was somehow imported. But how? That's what we need to find out," Fraser said.
 
Although it appears the disease is passed either through direct animal-to-animal contact or indirect exposure, including feed and contaminated water sources, scientists admit they don't fully understand how it's transmitted.
 
http://www.vegsource.com/talk/madcow/messages/94381.html
 
 
Patricia A. Doyle, PhD
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