{"id":1884,"date":"2004-02-27T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-27T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=1884"},"modified":"2004-02-27T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-27T22:04:00","slug":"antler-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/02\/27\/18\/04\/antler-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Antler Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still keep coming back to this simple problem. If a prion disease like <a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2095997\/\">CWD (in deer) can spread as if borne by mobile ve<\/p>\n<p>ctors<\/a> or proximity-based contagion, then how can the prion-based BSE (in cows) be assumed to be not spreading despite &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2096213\/\">improvements<\/a>&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factoryfarming.com\/\">industrialised slaughterhouse procedures<\/a>.<a href=\"http:\/\/slate.msn.com\/id\/2095997\/\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CWD is passed with relative ease among deer kept together in a penned environment?within four years, 90 percent of the experimental group contracted the disease simply by living together. Scientists are still unsure about what transmits the pathogen: The evidence suggests that the disease must somehow linger in a shared grazing environment?likely in feces, urine, or saliva.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a>Earlier <a href=\"..\/Blogfiles\/2004_01_11_WeekArchive.php#'107419331223881207'\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still keep coming back to this simple problem. If a prion disease like CWD (in deer) can spread as if borne by mobile ve ctors or proximity-based contagion, then how can the prion-based&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}