• TheColonel@reddthat.com
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      10 months ago

      I’ve heard concern of it becoming a pandemic in deer populations and also scientists are worried it’ll spread to people!

      Yaaaaaaaaay. 🫠

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          It’s wild. Even after a deer with it dies it can remain in the soil for a couple of years. Burning and chemicals doesn’t affect it. The prion is just there, hanging out, waiting in the soil and water until another deer comes along and gets it doing normal deer things.