Thread: Chronic Wasting Disease Threat to NZ(CWD)

Originally Posted by LMcNab

Good podcast on the topic.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/02g...RFGmo1t55pJlkg

One of the interesting points in here is that no Human infection has been documented as yet from infected deer meat, in spite of probably alot of consumption. I wouldn't risk it, but interesting none the less.

We also have a testing programme in NZ deer farms where a certain number of animals exhibiting "wasting" symptoms are euthanized and brain tissue harvested for testing every year. This is conducted by the MPI Biosecurity team I believe.

That is 5 years old. What I posted is new information.