danb
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Can Deer urine spread CWD?
Why does NY plan to ban deer urine but not meat? Because politics, not science. Banning urine, easy and politically not risky. Banning transport of meat? good luck with that.
In a report released by the task force, the case against deer urine appears to be grounded in science. When I contacted some of the authors of the scientific papers cited, however, I learned that a deer would have to imbibe gallons of urine from a dying animal to fall ill; a few ounces sprayed around a hunting site doesn’t pose a risk. One of the papers’ authors, Nicholas Haley, a professor of immunology and microbiology at Midwestern University, told me that his lab had fed or injected more than a hundred mice with infected urine. Only one became sick—a mouse that had received an injection of highly concentrated urine directly into the brain.
Why does NY plan to ban deer urine but not meat? Because politics, not science. Banning urine, easy and politically not risky. Banning transport of meat? good luck with that.