Two hunters who were members of a hunting lodge in a western state have died from Cruetzfeldt-Jacobs disease, which they apparently got from eating venison from a CWD prion-infested deer. But you can’t prove it because the disease, known as TSE, (Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy) is found in cattle, goats, sheep and elk. Maybe they ate a goat together? Can’t have a panic about this when it can cause hunters to stop buying deer tags.

A few years ago, Carol Schroeder, from Camdenton, told me that her husband had died from the disease known as Cruetzfeldt-Jacobs disease in a St.Louis hospital in a quarantined room. After his death the Center for Disease Control took control of his body it was taken to the crematory by a highway patrol escort to be sure that if any accident occurred on the way his body would not be handled by unknowing first- responders. Mrs. Schroeder confirmed that he had eaten venison during the months before his death.

“I never believed in assisted suicide,” she told me, “but I would have given anything if it could have happened for my poor husband. It took him two months to die and what he went through, what I saw as his brain deteriorated, I cannot even talk about it to this day.”

She isn’t the only one who has had a relative die of the disease in Missouri. There have been many. But you will never hear about any of them. None of the deaths has been mentioned by the media, not anywhere!

Bill Zippro, a resident of Joplin, will tell you that his brother died a young man with prions in his brain because he killed and ate a huge buck which was not acting right. His brother told him the buck didn’t make any attempt to escape and he told Bill he thought the deer had been turned loose from a nearby deer farm across the border in Kansas where they feed deer meat and bone by-products to make bigger antlers. He said his brother was shown to have the prions in his brain and spinal fluid, and the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta Georgia verified it.

In Italy, two workers studying CWD (chronic wasting disease) in deer died from the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy disease. Now the big cover-up is about those two men in that western state where CWD is prevalent in deer and elk, have died from that same disease. Look for their deaths on the Internet. Make no mistake about it, Chronic Wasting disease in deer, Cruetzfeldt-Jacobs disease in humans and ‘Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy’ disease are all the same disease, like rabies and hydrophobia are the same disease with different names.

Look it up on the Internet and notice that it says humans can get the disease through eating “contaminated foodstuff” which just might include venison, contaminated with prions. You reckon? You won’t be able to find the name of the hunting lodge or the state or the names of the two men but it will never be admitted that they ate elk and deer meat from the same animal.

When it has the potential to make conservation departments lose a lot of money through the loss of deer tag sales, you keep the facts obscured. Therefore, the Missouri Department of Conservation will tell you humans can’t get the disease from deer. After all the people who died could have died from eating sheep or goat meat, right? But you cannot deny humans are getting the disease from handling or eating the meat from deer. In fact it is known that among the seven people who died of Cruetzfeld Jacobs disease in Arkansas, one was a taxidermist who mounted deer heads.

Now in Oklahoma they have passed a law that CWD-diseased deer in deer-farm structures can be sold or legally released into the wild. Some of Oklahoma’s wisest people in the legislature agree that exposing them to the disease may create immunity in wild deer. Would it surprise anyone to know that one of the legislators who has caused the law to be accepted is a man who owns a deer farm?

One tip for you deer hunters… prions are found in the brain. ‘Spongiform Encephalopathy refers to the holes in the brain the abnormal proteins cause. The protein has not been found in the meat but rather brain fluid and spinal fluid and perhaps bone marrow. To avoid ingesting prions, first have your deer tested, then do not cut the spine or any bones. If you put a bullet into the head or spine, you are risking having prions in the meat. Another piece of advice… do not eat any venison that you have not taken care of…  don’t have anyone else butcher your deer and do not eat venison from the well-advertised “Share the Harvest” program. That was created so that trophy hunters would not have to utilize the meat, but give it away instead. None of those trophy bucks get tested. And where are 75 percent of CWD cases found? Older bucks!