of the fricking Origins of the fricking Ebola Virus 
https://a.co/d/frzkIQj
The fricking ketamine must be working 
bc I'm reading 
for pleasure again 
It's basically about this one cave which is the fricking origin of Ebola and Marburg (basically b-word 
butt Ebola).
It talks about trying to find the fricking source 
of the fricking diseases, what they do to the fricking body, the fricking terrifying spread 
and trying to figure 
out what the fricking heck was fricking going 
on in Africa 
basically.
I read half the fricking book yesterday and will probably finish it today. It's an easy read/brain candy. Highly recommend if you want to get absorbed into a fricking book since Netflix is fricking shit these days.
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I came back to just say that I read this cover to cover three separate times in highschool, and it's what made me really consider epidemiology
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Is it true that ebola was caused by sheepfricking?
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No, not sheepfricking. It's more likely that it transmitted from 'bush meat'. Many people in different parts of Africa eat smaller primates as well as chimpanzee (from my understanding, not very often, as taking down a chimpanzee is difficult).
The book also implied that it could have come from a sexual encounter, from a primate.
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tbh we can't laugh at the Africans too much, one day us plains-cels are all gonna get CWD from the wrong deer
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It's not totally impossible, CWD has only been observed since 2005 in the US.
CWD is a prion disease, meaning that functions like cooking doesn't kill it. That also means that it spreads through waste as well as infected meat.
It can stay dormant in an environment for years, even.
This video is short and breaks it down very well:
I guess there was a case of two hunters recently dying after eating CWD infected meat:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/19/zombie-deer-disease-hunters-died-infected-venison/73384647007/
(I'm taking this with a grain of salt, though)
But it won't cause a zombie apocalypse. At worst, it looks like the symptoms manifest similar to CJD.
Which is still awful, but it's not as r-slurred as a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE
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Tbh I expect CWD to become a bigger problem in the North American Interior in the coming decades, and we'll probably see more human cases, but I don't think it will go pandemic level
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I'll be honest, I don't forsee that happening. The amount of people who've eaten venison on a consistent basis, since 2005, in States with CWD concentrations is so high.
Surely, we would have seen more examples of cross species infection by now.
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That's true, I think the group to watch would be the
, if anyone will get it they should. Venison heavy diet, poor healthcare, weaker immune systems (both naturally and from 
activities)
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Don't those diseases take sometimes decades to manifest symptoms? And my understanding was CWD wasn't yet proven to be transmissible to humans- keyword being "yet".
When it does make the jump that's the end of all deer hunting in North America
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Brits were eating vast amounts of mad cows for years, CJD is horrible but humans must be resistant to prion diseases as the numbers never reached close to predictions. Similar for scrapies.
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I live in the midwest in a hotspot area for CWD and I refuse to eat deer.
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Fair
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Propaganda working
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Probably tbh
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Also don't forget about climate change and whole Europe going under water in 1998, 2000, 2002…
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Samsies
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