Catherine Haig

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The MeatEater Podcast · Ep. 882: Cyanide Bombs, New CWD Research, and F%ck Data Centers · 28 May 2026 podcast

These are diseases with very long incubation periods.

So one comparison you can draw is with the BSE epidemic.

Now, that emerged in the mid-1980s, and we were seeing the first cases in the mid-1990s.

I think it transpired that it's about an eight-year median incubation.

So what we might expect, you know, CWD we've known about since I think it's been published since the 60s.

Yeah.

So what we might expect is that if that really was the case, that we'd start seeing a tick up in the number of cases of CJD.

And that just hasn't happened.

So I think that is very unlikely.

I mean, if the incubation period is so long that it's longer than a human lifespan, that would be irrelevant anyway.

But we would be on the lookout for a tick up in cases.

Or more likely, like BSC, the form of CJD that it caused was completely different to the forms that we see through natural sporadic disease.

the biochemical signature of the protein was distinct.

So we were able to tell whether someone died of the variant CJD from eating BSC versus of an unfortunate case of the normal disease.

So while it's not impossible, at this point, I don't believe there's any evidence to support a tick up in cases or a different disease emerging.

It's hard to tell.

It may have been around for much, much longer than we know.

I believe that there is a isolated herd in one of the northern European countries where it spontaneously appeared.

So it seems most likely that it could have been a spontaneous disease that maybe if the deer weren't in such close proximity,

um proximity maybe that one deer would have died and it wouldn't have been a particular problem um but i don't know it could it could have been just the odd case here and there for a very long time and there's no you know how you could go look at a you can go look at a an organism

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