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

But when they have those polymorphisms, they are very unlikely to contract disease.

So that herd becomes protected.

And this is of huge interest for CWD as well, because if you could breed a herd that simply can't get the disease, then it is no longer a problem.

It'll take a long time to release a breeding population.

So this has also happened naturally.

I don't know if you've heard of Kuru.

It was a disease for a tribe of Papua New Guinea.

So they actually, they were cannibals.

They were eating the corpse as part of a funeral rite and, of course, becoming infected.

But they actually evolved a new polymorphism to protect them against disease.

And I think at the point that they were persuaded to change their funeral rites, it was about 50% of the population that may have this new polymorphism.

So it happened naturally that they were evolving this effectively to survive.

So with a few deer with those polymorphisms out there, they may simply out-compete the ones that get disease.

Over time.

um every model is flawed so that's the first thing to bear in mind in science nothing is perfect so we we have to always take our results with a grain of salt in our model uh we have tested the human polymorphisms that represent only 90 ish percent of the population so there's still a subset of people we haven't been able to test whether they would be vulnerable we are working on that now and um

keeping fingers crossed.

So I don't think I would be blasé and say, yeah, you'll be fine.

Eat as much as you want.

I think I would still recommend to people that they get their meat tested if they can.

I also feel a bit like this isn't something to be losing sleep over.

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