The link is not 100% but two hunters eating from the same deer population and falling ill at around the same time is extremely unlikely to be a coincidence.

We are essentially one mutation away from this spreading between humans and that would be very, very bad.

  • Mactan@lemmy.ml
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    7 months ago

    is this the same story ? https://www.neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WNL.0000000000204407

    • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
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      7 months ago

      Wait, that deer population has been known to have CWD and they were still like "hey, i guess these are good to eat"? tf is wrong with carnists?

      • Infamousblt [any]
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        7 months ago

        I mean this isn't even a carnist thing in as much as this is just a "MUH RIGHT TO PUT MYSELF AND ALL OF HUMANITY AT MASSIVE RISK" thing

      • Mactan@lemmy.ml
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        7 months ago

        yep, there's even testing stations and they never get their flesh tested

        • AutomatedPossum [she/her]
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          7 months ago

          i am suddenly getting a very detailed idea of how these people behaved during the lockdowns