Thread: Serious Warning. Zombie disease hits 24 States in USA and Canada.

It's Chronic Wasting Disorder aka CWD. Been in the States for decades. None in NZ, and risk of new infection should be low, should MPI do their jobs at the border. It could come in on soles of boots I imagine? As supposedly the disease can sit in soil. No evidence to suggest CWD can be transmitted to humans, that said, none to suggest it can't.

I personally know people in Canada who have had to shut down their entire deer farm, slaughter a few thousand breeding hinds all because one old carcass was found and tested inconclusive to CWD. First and only case of it in their area so it's on lock down. Basically the farm gets shut down, and sterilized, and will probably never be a deer farm again. No hunting permitted within 30 miles of the boundary either. Huge costs, financially and socially and huge stress for them.

The cynical side of me makes me raise my eyebrows to these type of reports, suggesting its the new end of the world, when in fact it's been around for ages. Especially with the loud and proud anti farming and anti hunting population. Anything to control how we put meat protein on our table is a win for them.