Won't stop me enjoying a rare steak. How about you?
Rereading your post the CDC talk about the blood of an infected animal. The key words here are "infected" and "zoonotic disease" (Zoonoses)
Blood of a healthy animal is treated as sterile. Otherwise we would not consume it.
When we stalk a deer and at the Gralloch we should be looking for signs of it being in good health both internally and externally. I think we have hijacked this thread enough. Im not going to go through looking for abnormalities here. Needless to say we discard animals that are sick or that have infected external wounds. Certain illnesses we are watchful for must be notified to the Divisional Veterinary Manager at Animal Health. The carcass of healthy animals goes forward for consumption with its Pluck which can also help to verify the health of an animal. So in this we are avoiding contact and sick animals entering the foodchain at all. I don't know how this works in your part of the world?
Diseases are thankfully difficult to pass between species. I was always taught that the less human an animal is then the safer it is to eat. Think of recent history, Birdflu, Ebola and perhaps HIV are all publicised as making that jump. It makes news!
Here is a complete list from public health England of Zoonoses.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-zoonotic-diseases/list-of-zoonotic-diseases
Its not many and it is still quite species specific.
I wouldn't get too fretful about such illnesses.
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Rereading your post the CDC talk about the blood of an infected animal. The key words here are "infected" and "zoonotic disease" (Zoonoses)
Blood of a healthy animal is treated as sterile. Otherwise we would not consume it.
When we stalk a deer and at the Gralloch we should be looking for signs of it being in good health both internally and externally. I think we have hijacked this thread enough. Im not going to go through looking for abnormalities here. Needless to say we discard animals that are sick or that have infected external wounds. Certain illnesses we are watchful for must be notified to the Divisional Veterinary Manager at Animal Health. The carcass of healthy animals goes forward for consumption with its Pluck which can also help to verify the health of an animal. So in this we are avoiding contact and sick animals entering the foodchain at all. I don't know how this works in your part of the world?
Diseases are thankfully difficult to pass between species. I was always taught that the less human an animal is then the safer it is to eat. Think of recent history, Birdflu, Ebola and perhaps HIV are all publicised as making that jump. It makes news!
Here is a complete list from public health England of Zoonoses.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/list-of-zoonotic-diseases/list-of-zoonotic-diseases
Its not many and it is still quite species specific.
I wouldn't get too fretful about such illnesses.
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