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CDC warns hunters deer carrying tuberculosis strain can pass it to people

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Denny
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CDC warns hunters deer carrying tuberculosis strain can pass it to people

PUBLISHED: 09/27/19 11:15 AM EDT

LANSING, Mich. (WTSP) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a warning for hunters.

A report released by the CDC this week is warning hunters about tuberculosis in deer spreading to people.

The report comes two years after the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services was made aware of a 77-year-old man who had tuberculosis caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium bovis, also known as M. bovis.

The report said the man didn’t have a history of traveling to countries that had endemic tuberculosis, was not exposed to anyone who had tuberculosis and he had been hunting in the state regularly and field-dressing his deer for 20 years.

The CDC said the area where the man lives in Michigan has a high rate of M. bovis-positive deer.

This isn’t the only case of hunting-related M. Bovis in people the state has seen. There was a case in 2002 and another in 2004, according to the CDC. The CDC said both of those people had signs and symptoms of TB and had to get medical help.

People can get infected with M. bovis after direct contact with open wounds or inhaling the bacteria in the air the animals breathe, according to the CDC.

Source link: https://www.10tv.com/article/cdc-wa...berculosis-strain-can-pass-it-people-2019-sep
 
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Lucky

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Hope that shit stays up north. By the looks of it, looks pretty obvious you got an unhealthy deer as soon as you field dress it. But sounds like that mite already b to late.. Hope it can be eradicated at some point .
 

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Denny
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Hope that shit stays up north. By the looks of it, looks pretty obvious you got an unhealthy deer as soon as you field dress it. But sounds like that mite already b to late.. Hope it can be eradicated at some point .

You stand a better chance of contracting TB from illegal aliens, but we don’t hear anything about that now do we?

Trust in the fact that I'll always question any political machine that's designed to control me.

Just saying...
 

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Yep this is confined to a very small area, every year it goes viral in ohio and you never see in the information that's it's only in the north eastern part of LP michigan. Something like 1.4% of the deer, its definitely something to think about, in terms of eradication especially since it's so uncommon still. But we only see scare tactic type shit.
 
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