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    Pennsylvania has boxes to collect severed deer heads to test for disease

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    4. codece on

      Huh. And here I thought it was like a free public deer head library.

      I guess I’ve been using it wrong.

    5. Archduke_Of_Beer on

      “I know how this deer died Tim.”

      “Another decapitation?”

      “Another decapitation…”

    6. Dr-Lipschitz on

      You all are joking, but Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) is a big problem right now. It’s a prion disease. It’s not *currently* known to affect humans, but no one wants to be patient zero. 

      Don’t eat deer unless you know it’s been tested.

    8. BoSocks91 on

      I know there is a good reason for this, but just knowing there is a bin full of severed Deer heads, just chilling out in the open, is very weird.

    11. bob_500000 on

      Brah, I think every single city in Canada has one of these. Chronic wasting disease is a real concern

    18. naparis9000 on

      Prions aren’t just incurable, they are near impossible to destroy.

      They resist acid, weathering, heat, cold, can just lay on the ground for decades and still be viable.

      It takes incineration at over 1000°C to be sure a prion is gone

      Prions are incredibly fucking scary.

    23. Exhausted-CNA on

      yup, we have one at my recycling center..imagine having that job of retrieving them 👀

    26. mouringcat on

      So how do they link the head to the hunter? The last time I deer hunted in Minnesota we were asked if we would donate the head, and we had to provide contact information. And was told we’d be contacted in two weeks if there was a problem. If not, we were to assume it was safe.

    29. sunny790 on

      so if someone wants to eat the deer but they are waiting on these results, can they safely go ahead and butcher the animal? like would a processing place have to do some type of serious equipment cleanup if they found out one tested positive? (i dont know much about prions except they are terrifying)

    32. tagwag on

      Prion diseases are absolute nightmare fuel. Just read the wiki on them. They don’t transfer from deer to human…YET. Don’t be patient zero. Test your meat, and then eat. Seriously I had to calm myself down after reading about them. I’ve purposely locked the info in a mental vault because it’s that scary.

    36. Goodbye_Games on

      CWD is no joke… I’ve watched it creep across state lines and even called wildlife when I seen a deer which I thought was infected. There’s deer leases backed up against most of my property lines so I see deer all year round crossing all my property heading towards feed plots set up on those leases. Wildlife has a few cams set up on my strongbacks that seem to be the more busy routes and every now and then one of the officers will have to come out for regular maintenance. They’ll stop by and visit for a cup of coffee and let me know how things are going, and lately they’ve all been pretty bleak.

      I’ve never seen one of these head stations though. I’ll have to ask how they do this process.

    38. Gr3yt1mb3rw0LF068 on

      This is a fancy box. One near where I lived was just a chipboard box with maybe a lid.

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