Deer & Deer Hunting

A CURE FOR CWD? Dr.Frank O.Bastian speaks out

It is possible to eradicate chronic wasting disease (CWD) — at least on some levels — in white-tailed deer. Bacteria, not prions, are present in all transmissible spongiform encephalopathy diseases. And, perhaps most shocking, up to 15 percent of all Alzheimer’s disease deaths might be misclassified cases of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Those are three bold statements made recently by disease researcher Dr. Frank O. Bastian, and he is standing by them.

For decades, research into the prion theory — that TSE diseases are caused by a “mis-folded protein” — has been heavily funded, but has shown little results in terms of

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