Originally Posted by Swampdrummin
Originally Posted by Shotts

I have read the Macaque paper and it is a very long stretch to say it jumped the species barrier based on that study. They took infected concentrated brain tissue and actually not only implanted it in the Macaque tissue in the brain but scratched the brain cells to make sure it had positive uptake. On the others they were feeding them as much as 25% of their total body weight per day in infected concentrated CWD brain tissue. This does not show it can "naturally jump" the barrier from natural means, only that it can live in a different host species under ideal conditions. Further only half of the Macaques in this study contracted the disease under this extreme set of circumstances.



In “THE MACQUE MONKEY STUDY”, as in the one that everyone one is raising a big fuss about, the meat fed to the macaques represented the human equivalent of eating a 7-ounce steak per month not 25% of their body weight in brains.

So just to be clear the equivalent of A SEVEN OUNCE STEAK PER MONTH killed monkeys in THE MAQUE MONKEY study. I believe 3/5 had died so far at the time those findings were posted. They Weren’t done with the study yet as I recall but that was so alarming they had to get it out.

You better go pull the paper as well as the power point presentation givin at the conference and do some reading your self. The fine print tells a different story as a matter of fact the National Institute of Health publicstion in March of 2018 that CWD showed no transmission in Macqaues in the 13 year study.
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/new...asting-disease-transmissibility-macaques
I will find my old post that I wrote right after reading it and pull the numbers.

Here is another review of the same study with some scepticism
https://www.myewa.org/blog/fake-chronic-wasting-disease-cwd/

Last edited by Shotts; 01/18/19 09:26 PM.
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