Deer can pass tuberculosis to humans, CDC says

[RED333]

Something to think about

https://www.foxnews.com/health/deer-tuberculosis-humans-cdc

Heads up, hunters: You can potentially contract tuberculosis from deer infected with the bacterial disease, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently announced.

A 77-year-old Michigan man was diagnosed with tuberculosis in 2017 after he was exposed to Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) – a mycobacterium that’s often found in cattle, bison, elk, and deer – while removing the intestines from an infected deer, the CDC said in a recent report.

[DaveTN]

Good grief! 

I don’t hunt and I don’t eat stuff that didn’t come in a package from the store or I picked off the plant. That is risky enough.

[Ronald_55]

Good reason to use latex gloves when field dressing.

The worst thing I ever had was a fungus infection in my lung from ...get this...working in the dirt. I was helping during flood cleanup in Missouri.  The doc swore I had TB or cancer. Just good to remember we are fragile creatures susceptible to all kinds of nasty stuff mother nature has floating around. 

[E4 No More]

Fun fact: Mycobacterium is also very sensitive to ultraviolet light and dies pretty quickly in direct sunlight.

[RED333]

4 hours ago, E4 No More said:

Fun fact: Mycobacterium is also very sensitive to ultraviolet light and dies pretty quickly in direct sunlight.

Real good info, thanks.

[owejia]

We call it brulliousis in cattle. All breeding age female cattle are slaughtered if infected, or that is the way it was done back 20 years ago. They would hot brand a B on their jaw to mark them for slaughter. Nothing new about it, been around as long as animals.