getting sick from animals you kill

[Slickhead]

Ever think much about it? Just read a story this AM about a little girl who contracted the plague (thats right the plague) from a dead squirrel she touched.
If the doctor wouldnt have been very good, the little girl would have certainly died.

I guess this happens about 9 times a year, but you just dont hear much about it.

Just make you think a little about the critters you touch.   :eek:

If is was going to happen, I would rather it be from a critter I killed with my bow. Much more so than getting salmonella from some tainted grocery store chicken, or ecoli from some bad grocery store meat.

No,I don't wory about it! I guess if that is what is in the cards for me then it will happen.

Most of the time those diseases are transferred through contact with some smller animal like a bat or something that was already very sick and/or dead and not the larger animals we normally hunt to consume.

Bisch

[Jack Ripper]

Worst case of food poisoning I ever had was store bought meat from walmart. I was so bad I had blood coming out of me. Grocery store meat makes me nervous. By the way plauge is caused by flea bites.

[Marc B.]

Bad scallops in a local seafood place  and a salad on a US Air flight out of Mexico City got me worse than anything I've had before. I never thing about it with game animals.

[Fritz]

What Bisch said!

[JimB]

It does pay to be careful.Rabbits,squirrels,muskrats,beavers and other mammals can have tularemia and it doesn't always need a cut to be transferred.It can be fatal if not treated.

Coon roundworm can also be fatal to humans and is found in 60-90% of most coon populations.I believe bears get this also.This is a really bad one.

Trichinosis is known to occur in hogs and bears but other critters like mountain lions and coyotes get it as well.

It pays to be careful and use rubber gloves.People die from these every year and the problem is,many doctors have no experience with them and often don't consider them when making a diagnosis.The coon round worm for instance often is only found at autopsy.It just pays to be careful.

It pays to be careful an

[Izzy]

Be careful and use common sense but none of us will be here forever. Even universal precautions wont prevent these illnesses all of the time.

[bswear]

What about that deer that you don't find until the next morning.  What is the risk there?  I have been told it won't hurt you if fully cooked with early fall temps(not freezing)...but it just wont' taste good?!

[toddster]

I will only eat the animals I harvest and find in reasonable amount of time.  Squirrel, deer, birds and such never had a problem.  I look hard at the liver's of all animals I harvest, just to make sure, especially rabbits.

[CHENRYIV]

Not the same thing, but I can't blame the wildgame. However I blame those darn ticks.  I must have gotten bit by a Lone Star tick & now I cant eat any mammal meat.

 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_127639.html

[Biggamefish]

I don't know what I would do if I was allergic to red meat.  Yikes

[Philbow]

I think the usual transmission vector for the plague is a flea bite, not just touching a dead animal.

[JamesV]

My grandfather contracted rabbit fever. don't know much about it as I was just a small kid and only remember the adults talking about it.

[Brazos]

The girl who got the plague from the squirrel, from my understanding, got it from a flea bite off the dead squirrel she found and played with.

[SheltonCreeker]

I understand the need for concern but as stated above common sense and some rubber gloves is about as far as I go. If you set around and wonder about all the things we ingest from public facilities, resturants, ink pens at the bank, basically anyting you touch etc etc I don't think some of us would ever leave the house again.

[tippit]

Bubonic Plague & Tularemia are in the same class of bacteria.  I got Tularemia pneumonia from inhaling some fur from a baby rabbit that was brought into our clinic...fever of 107 and written up in the New England Journal of Medicine as the subject!  I clean all my game with rubber gloves in fact two layers as I'll now use a long sleeve glove with rubber glove on top. Cook your meat to proper temperatures too.

[gregg dudley]

More worried about getting some tick borne disease.  Man they are THICK down here right now.  Chiggers too!

I do use rubber gloves when processing hogs.

[roundbal]

My family only eats the deer I kill and fish I catch. We haven't had to buy beef or any other red meat in 8 years. I'm sure my luck will run out eventually but I like knowing what my family is eating an animal I harvested and processed myself. We do buy pork and chicken but we spend a little extra and get it from a local butcher we know.

[J-dog]

got to be careful but CDC (?) could give you ideas on what has been reported in your areas. I think the southwest has been the worse for plague diseases.

[Tajue17]

okay not the same thing but I got pretty sick this year from a raw oyster and I knew it ws bad BUT because you don't taste an oyster untill its already at the point of no return headed down your throat to splash into the eternal sea of carona,,, I know I deserve it but I just love RAW OYSTERS....