Is fire the only remedy for CWD?

[jjas]

www.nytimes.com/2017/06/26/science/chronic-wasting-disease-deer-elk-prions.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur

[Woody Williams]

Meanwhile....

CWD has jumped the shark.

In a recent study macaque monkeys have contracted the disease by just eating infected muscle.

The implications are grim.

cjonline.com/outdoors/sports/news/2017-06-20/new-study-suggests-humans-may-be-susceptible-chronic-wasting-disease


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[swetz]

I don't know. The article even says the fire isn't hot enough to destroy the deformed protein, just kill some of the plants they would be sitting on.

I'm not a scientist, but wouldn't the new plants also pick up the proteins as they grew?