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Re: Humans can acquire TB from deer

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Post by EdwardDiego » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 10:51 AM UTC

cbluth wrote: post #7

EdwardDiego wrote: post #4

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Not sure why it's scary? In NZ we've got bovine TB, and you need to learn to identify it in animals you're butchering, deer can get it but wild pigs are more prone due to their predilection for scavenging carcasses - brushtail possums, an introduced pest from Australia, are the main vector for cattle, deer and pigs. When I started hunting, I was taught, "don't eat the lumpy ones", and of course, always make sure you…

The ticks aren't so bad if you know how to pull them out of your skin.

It's more their reputation as a disease vector that scares me. We don't have very many ticks in NZ, and currently (let's see what climate change brings) no insect disease vectors, so not at all used to them.

I suspect you're not worried about them for the same reason I'm not worried about bovine TB - you know how to handle it.

Re: Humans can acquire TB from deer

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Post by reggintoggaf » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 1:05 PM UTC

waste_monk wrote: post #9

cbluth wrote: post #7

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The ticks aren't so bad if you know how to pull them out of your skin.

I don't know, as someone who eats a lot of meat the idea of catching a meat allergy from a tick bite is pretty terrifying https://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies/types-food-...

You can still eat poultry and fish if you have it. You just can't eat mammals. As someone who's mostly zero-carb, I find it scary too, but it's not a total catastrophe.

Re: Humans can acquire TB from deer

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Post by pvaldes » Mon, Sep 30, 2019, 11:00 PM UTC

Of course we can, but wolves are good cleaning it in wild mammals, and cattle is routinely watched for suspicious symptoms currently. TB is a common acronym for human tuberculosis. Here TB means the disease caused by Bovine Tuberculosis, a different organism that makes just for a small part of the cases in humans, does not necessarily develop symptoms or adverse effects and can remain indetectable on carriers for a indefinite amount of time.

Fishermen have also their own mycobacteriosis. Is interesting that picking tuberculosis by fishes is impossible because the organism in this case can't stand our inner temperature. They cause a totally different set of symptoms on humans

Re: Humans can acquire TB from deer

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Post by stallmanite » Tue, Oct 01, 2019, 1:55 AM UTC

waste_monk wrote: post #9

cbluth wrote: post #7

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The ticks aren't so bad if you know how to pull them out of your skin.

I don't know, as someone who eats a lot of meat the idea of catching a meat allergy from a tick bite is pretty terrifying https://acaai.org/allergies/types/food-allergies/types-food-...

Wow one more weird reason to fear ticks. I wonder why ticks are such effective disease vectors.