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Originally Posted by ishootbambi

thats some interesting arithmetic. the real numbers that matter are infected animals in number of heads tested. in both alberta and saskatchewan, infection rates are running less than 1%.....actually pretty close to a half of one percent.



actually david, you may need to catch up. colorado has been dealing with this for 45 years now, and they have deer densities around 10 times higher than we do....not to mention elk at around 30 times what we have. in 30 years, we will likely have around a 2% infection if you extropolate the numbers based on what has been observed in the state that has dealt with this the longest. one particualr thing to note is that there is still a small pocket of colorado that has ZERO infection after all this time.

i find it best to examine available data from sources based in colorado and wyoming and not the BS that srd in alberta is peddling. to do nothign is no worse than standing by....given that NOTHING tried so far has had any effect. you could argue that the culls are actually doing damage to the herds. there has never been 100% infection even in captive herds. many experts believe that some animals are immune to this disease, and by culling thousands of healthy deer, you are actually removing those safe animals. still just a theory, but whats proven is that culls are completly inneffective because of the persistence of the disease long after the host is gone. your ebola example works well for viral infections...but this is very different.

Keep up the good work Dale........