3 points
I mean there’s precedence. Avian bird flus have been known to infect humans.
9 points
The deer disease is the same family as BSE which does jump to humans, so it’s fairly likely.
2 points
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4 points
It’s tricky. So I was listening to a BSE radio doc recently which had an episode about the deer. They actually don’t know if BSE was transmitted through eating the beef, in fact there’s cases of vegetarians getting it. It’s still being studied. They’re very worried about people eating infected deer, which is quite likely being as they’re easy to kill, but also having anything to do with them because they just don’t know how it moves from animal to animal, deers rarely eat each other so it’s not super likely that’s the only way.
