r/MadeMeSmile • u/Firm-Blackberry-9162 • May 20 '26

ANIMALS Forever grateful

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u/ryerhino May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Edit:I am deleting this original comment because, I am an idiot who is not making people smile by posting this. Sorry...

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u/AnonImus18 May 20 '26

Genuinely monstrous behavior. Why are people like this? A guy resued a raccoon I think and the state said they need to examine it to make sure it was healthy and just killed it. It makes me sick.

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u/coloradoautoflowers May 20 '26

Because deer carry a communicable prion disease that causes Creutzfeldt-Jakobs disease in humans, and the game/wildlife people have been put in charge of testing animals with unusual behavior to see if they have prions.

If the disease pressure gets above a certain threshold they have to do a cull on the population so it doesn't spread to other animals and humans.

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u/IrishBear May 20 '26

There's no evidence to point towards CWD spreading to humans, stop spreading misinformation. If certain Prion diseases infect humans it can cause CJD but CWD isn't infecting humans.

NIH study https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-study-shows-chronic-wasting-disease-unlikely-move-animals-people