As an entirely uneducated, new-to-hunting bystander, CWD's virulence is quite worrisome. After listening to that podcast, I'm of the opinion that a viable option is to overhunt the heck out of the CWD-positive areas, educating the hunters on the proper strategies to deal with the meat/carcasses, and to test everything coming out of them. Bring the population levels very low, and keep them there while further strategies are developed. Whatever we can do to lower the risk of infection needs to be done.
While there's no guarantee it's harmful to humans, it's definitely bad for the animals, and I'd rather there still be some of them around for my kids and their kids to hunt in the coming decades.
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