Originally Posted by
FurFlyin
Snubby while I completely agree that’s the case with normal disease that’s not the case with CWD. This is caused by a Prion, not a virus. It’s not airborne or environmentally transmitted. It comes from direct contact with another infected animal. It made its way to MS either in the back of a cattle trailer, transporting live deer from infected areas to the high fence destination they were bound for, or it was transported in the back of a pickup from a dead deer carrying the disease that was killed in an infected state.
Unlike a virus or bacteria, a prion remains viable. If it completely decimated the deer population in an area, any new deer reintroduced years later would still wind up infected. So it’s really not a product of overpopulation. If it was, then it would cease when the overpopulation situation was corrected
It all originally came from a pen of mule deer in Colorado. I guess until the question of how those deer became infected gets answered then it’s gonna keep spreading.