Professor Questions Tainted Meat Research
pressconnects.com
12 April 2006
In February in this space I noted some research published in a scientific journal that seemingly showed that we may be at risk of contacting Chronic Wasting Disease by eating the meat from an infected animal. The idea is particularly noteworthy because we've long been told otherwise.
But Dr. Bradley Njaa, an anatomic veterinary pathologist and assistant professor of pathology at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine - definitely a guy who knows the subject -- took issue with the research findings and contends that we probably are safe eating the meat of infected animals anyhow.
PR Newswire News Archive - Yahoo! Finance
12 April 2006
HARRISBURG, Pa., April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Chronic wasting disease (CWD) was not detected in samples taken from hunter-killed deer during the state's 2005 hunting season, according to Dr. Walt Cottrell, Pennsylvania Game Commission wildlife veterinarian.
As CWD has been identified in New York and West Virginia in 2005, Cottrell noted that the agency continues to increase the number of deer samples collected for testing. In 2005, 3,834 samples were tested from hunter-killed deer, and CWD was not detected. In 2004, 3,613 hunter-killed deer samples were tested, compared to the 2,004 deer sampled in 2003, and 558 in 2002. CWD was not detected in previous year's samples.
Results showing that the CWD tests of hunter-killed elk from 2005 were all negative and were announced on Jan. 23.
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