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| 2008-10-28 |
| HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) - Health officials shut down a suburban Buffalo restaurant after an inspector found employees butchering a dead deer inside the business. Erie County Health Department officials said they got a tip Friday about a dead deer in the China King restaurant in the town of Hamburg, just south of Buffalo. . . . |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 Chronic Wasting Disease is a serious problem in my area. http://www.legis.state.wi.us/LRB/pubs/ttp/ttp-11-2002.html |
| Posted by: mom 2008-10-28 22:30 |
| #3 There's been a spread of prion-based Chronic Wasting Disease among deer herds in some areas. This is the class of untreatable diseases that includes 'mad cow' disease. Prions have now been found in deer muscle and spread from deer to deer the way the related prion disease scrapie spreads among sheep.  It's possible, but unconfirmed, that it could spread to humans through exposure to uncooked or undercooked deer meat. |
| Posted by: lotp 2008-10-28 21:24 |
| #2 Why is this a problem? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2008-10-28 20:44 |
| #1 I sure as hell hope the deer was dead, butchering a live deer would be much harder, not to mention hazardous to the butcher's health. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-10-28 17:40 |