Comments on: Maine Deer Hunting And Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/10/23/maine-deer-hunting-and-eastern-equine-encephalitis-eee/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-deer-hunting-and-eastern-equine-encephalitis-eee Black Bear Blog - The Politics of Hunting, Fishing and the Outdoors. Protecting our American Heritage. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lee http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/10/23/maine-deer-hunting-and-eastern-equine-encephalitis-eee/#comment-15668 Lee Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:45:33 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=8147#comment-15668 Much as you might not like it jes, I agree with you. It's part of the protect everybody from everything attitude. Much as you might not like it jes, I agree with you. It’s part of the protect everybody from everything attitude.

]]> By: jes http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/10/23/maine-deer-hunting-and-eastern-equine-encephalitis-eee/#comment-15667 jes Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:50:04 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=8147#comment-15667 "How common are human cases of EEE in the United States? In the United States between 1964-2004, 220 human EEE cases were reported to CDC. The national average is five cases per year." http://www.ct.gov/mosquito/cwp/view.asp?a=3486&q=415020 As far as I have researched it, it looks like EEE is another ambiguous subject for modern medical science, since it is so infrequent, and not on the list of major causes of public concern....Also, there is no evidence of it being communicable to people other than by a very specific type of mosquito...and most people are immune to it to begin with... The bylines of concern are almost as generalized for the prevention of CWD , where there have been precautions taken concerning spinal and brain tissue, even though there have not been any confirmed cases of the "virus" "prion" or whatever they are thinking it is, causing the disease in the first human... In my opinion, that's a lot of to-do over NOTHING. I never so much as wash my hands after gutting and field dressing deer, just wipe the blood and go from there...In my opinion, and when it comes down to ambiguous science, there is no substitute for good old fashioned "good sense" .... And deer are at the top of the charts in terms of not being a carrier of any disease that is communicable to man. “How common are human cases of EEE in the United States?
In the United States between 1964-2004, 220 human EEE cases were reported to CDC. The national average is five cases per year.”

http://www.ct.gov/mosquito/cwp/view.asp?a=3486&q=415020
As far as I have researched it, it looks like EEE is another ambiguous subject for modern medical science, since it is so infrequent, and not on the list of major causes of public concern….Also, there is no evidence of it being communicable to people other than by a very specific type of mosquito…and most people are immune to it to begin with…
The bylines of concern are almost as generalized for the prevention of CWD , where there have been precautions taken concerning spinal and brain tissue, even though there have not been any confirmed cases of the “virus” “prion” or whatever they are thinking it is, causing the disease in the first human…

In my opinion, that’s a lot of to-do over NOTHING. I never so much as wash my hands after gutting and field dressing deer, just wipe the blood and go from there…In my opinion, and when it comes down to ambiguous science, there is no substitute for good old fashioned “good sense” ….
And deer are at the top of the charts in terms of not being a carrier of any disease that is communicable to man.

]]> By: Tom Remington http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/10/23/maine-deer-hunting-and-eastern-equine-encephalitis-eee/#comment-15666 Tom Remington Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:07:57 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=8147#comment-15666 I think if you reread the information it spells out the answers to the questions you are asking. The advice says you shouldn't eat or handle game that "appear sick or act abnormally". The advice is not to handle or eat it when it is obvious something is wrong with the deer. The same advice tells us that aside from what we CAN'T see, make sure that the meat is handled properly and cooked to the recommended temperatures for safe consuming. I think if you reread the information it spells out the answers to the questions you are asking. The advice says you shouldn’t eat or handle game that “appear sick or act abnormally”. The advice is not to handle or eat it when it is obvious something is wrong with the deer.

The same advice tells us that aside from what we CAN’T see, make sure that the meat is handled properly and cooked to the recommended temperatures for safe consuming.

]]> By: Susan Gray http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/2009/10/23/maine-deer-hunting-and-eastern-equine-encephalitis-eee/#comment-15665 Susan Gray Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:57:23 +0000 http://www.skinnymoose.com/bbb/?p=8147#comment-15665 It would often not be apparent to a hunter if a deer is sick. You say people should not consume venison from an unhealthy deer. Sometimes you can't tell. In the next sentence you say to cook venison well to kill the EEE virus. So if the virus is killed by cooking, why do hunters need to worry about eating an infected deer? My husband is a hunter and I don't want to tell him the family can't eat the venison he brought home. Just how dangerous is it? It would often not be apparent to a hunter if a deer is sick. You say people should not consume venison from an unhealthy deer. Sometimes you can’t tell. In the next sentence you say to cook venison well to kill the EEE virus. So if the virus is killed by cooking, why do hunters need to worry about eating an infected deer? My husband is a hunter and I don’t want to tell him the family can’t eat the venison he brought home. Just how dangerous is it?

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