Experts indicate farmed deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
pose significant risks to wild deer and elk in the same area:
Potential for disease transmission from Fence‐Line Contact Between Wild
and Farmed Cervids
USDA/Agricultural Research Service (ARS) found that 86% of livestock
inoculated with CWD prions from infected white-tailed deer went on to
develop prion disease.
In light of the Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) epidemic, which has jumped the border into Pennsylvania from West Virginia, Maryland and/or New York, Pennsylvania ought to reevaluate its enthusiasm for land spreading sewage sludge biosolids on farm land, grazing ranges, hay fields and dairy pastures where livestock and deer ingest dirt and sludge with their fodder.
Sewage sludge contains human prions from Alzheimer's Disease (AD) victims who shed infectious prions in their urine and feces. (www.alzheimers-prions.com/) Meat packers and renderers discharge animal prion wastes to public sewers. Prions are found in mucous, blood, saliva, urine and feces. There are 6 million AD victims in the US epidemic, with a new case every 68 seconds.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency warms that plants and crops can uptake prions in compost:
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has identified infectious human and animal prions as emerging pathogenic contaminants of concern in sewage sludge "biosolids".:
Renown prion researcher, Dr. Joel Pedersen, University of Wisconsin, found that prions become 680 times more infective in certain soil minerals.:
Dr. Pedersen's research also proved sewage treatment does not inactivate prions: " Our results suggest that if prions were to enter municipal wastewater treatment systems, most of the agent would partition to activated sludge solids, survive mesophilic anaerobic digestion, and be present in treated biosolids. Land application of biosolids containing prions could represent a route for their unintentional introduction into the environment. Our results argue for excluding inputs of prions to municipal wastewater treatment."
Dr. Pedersen and associates stated: "Prions could end up in wastewater treatment plants via slaughterhouse drains, hunted game cleaned in a sink, or humans with vCJD shedding prions in their urine or faeces, " http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021/es703186e
In the July 3, 2010 issue of VETERINARY RECORD, Dr. Pedersen stated: “Finally, the disposal of sludge was considered to represent the greatest risk of spreading (prion) infectivity to other premises.”
Helane Shields, Alton,NH [email protected] www.alzheimers-prions.com/
i have followed cwd for over a decade daily. was banned in Pennslyvania from even speaking about it in 2005. i lost my mother to the hvCJD in 1997 and just followed the many TSE prion disease in many species, and the mad cow blunder. here is the latest science on the TSE CWD prion. ...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Pennsylvania Confirms First Case CWD Adams County Captive Deer Tests Positive
Saturday, October 6, 2012
TRANSMISSION, DIFFERENTIATION, AND PATHOBIOLOGY OF TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES 2011 Annual Report
good luck !
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
PENNSYLVANIA 2012 THE GREAT ESCAPE OF CWD INVESTIGATION MOVES INTO LOUISIANA and INDIANA
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