getting sick from animals you kill

[Todweelz]

I fleshed out quite a few deer, bears, and yotes in the shop last year. I always wear gloves and wash up with anti-bac soap, use common sense and play it on the safe side, don't spend alot of time worrying about what can happen, if its fixen to happen its going to happen.

[wapitirod]

we just had a case of the plague when I guy was bit by a rat he was trying to take away from his cat.  We are also seeing more cases of rabies this year here in OR.  I've only let one deer lay after I killed it but I wasn't going to take a chance.  I shot a mulie a few years ago with a rifle and when I got up to it the deer was nothing but skin and bones and the hide was missing half it's hair.  I don't know what was wrong with it but I wasn't going to take a chance.  The blacktail herds here are now being  hit by hair loss disease caused by a new louse.  This is an aisian louse (of course) anyone else notice our fish and wildlife are being devastated by intruders from asia more so than anything else.

[olddogrib]

Somewhere there's a cruel irony in the fact that people can visit a beautiful place like Yosemite one time and catch something like the hantavirus.  I'd bet big money their cabins are the equivalent of hospital OR's compared to the shack I've been hunting out of for >30 yrs.  I gave up trying to rid the place of mice and co-exist with some seriously well-fed black snakes just to keep the deer & field mouse population in check.  I know it's a geography/location phenomenon, but I can't help but believe there's also an exposure piece that play's into it, i.e. a little dirt time can be a good thing as far as building up your resistance so some bad things. Thank the good Lord for parents of the 50's and 60's that let their kids get incredibly nasty because they didn't have electronics to play with! I digress, and my intent is not to downplay the tragedy of the outbreaks the country is seeing.

[UrbanDeerSlayer]

Originally posted by gregg dudley:
More worried about getting some tick borne disease.  Man they are THICK down here right now.  Chiggers too!

You ain't kidding! I've never seen so many dang tics in my life as I did at Fall TBOF! We were covered with 'em!

[ksbowman]

Old dog there is alot of merit and wisdom to what you say. With all the disinfectant wipe and hand sprays alot of resistance to the diseases out there have to be weakened due to no antibodies being developed to those small exposures.

[landman]

I won't bet on it but I think that the presence of the Brazilian fire ant is beneficial in keeping down ticks and possibly chiggers, too.  It seems that when I'm hunting in areas of the Deep South where those things are found I just don't see any ticks.

But, there may be another factor too.   I don't get out and hunt until after the weather gets pretty cool...essentially after the first frost but I do that to try to dodge the mosquitos.

[AWPForester]

olddogrib, that is better said than I could have ever composed even though I was going to attempt it.  The flu shot is precisely the reason the flu keeps getting worse.  Our kids are sickly because they don't play in the dirt and woods any more.  If yoou aren't allowed to build an immunity to it, you are going to get sick from it.  Prety simpple but the world we live in calls for these "precautions" as protocal.  Anybody here with kids knws what it s like while young and in school.  They simply stay sick all year long because of these supposed improvements.

My mother, wife, and grandmothers use/used the same apron to carry bread dough in, that was kneaded from the same table we ate at, which was wiped down with the same dish cloth they used for the dishes, sink, and counters for the day.  No bleech, lysol, or disinfectant unless something was spilled or it was/is mopping day.

Don't get me wrong, basic sanitation is a must if you want to stay healthy, but sanitation requires precautions and common sense, not chemicals that kill everything, including you.  My kids played in the floor and dirt, went bare footed and alwas had dirty feet and dirty hands from good ole dirt.  Both are healthy, strong, and physiical specimens while many of their classmates are weakling's.

Use your head when dealing with anything you intend to eat.  But store bought and chemical, disease ridden food is what you better be thinking about.  God Bless

[Slickhead]

This thread has certainly been interesting. I hope all here are healthy for a long time.
Im sure the odds of getting sick from an animal you kill is about the same has getting struck by lightning.
But you have to admit,it'd be a bummer  :eek: