There are a lot of unknowns about these diseases, and CWD is probably the most enigmatic.

This shows muscle contains infected material. Anybody who may be handling or eating infected deer may be inadvertently exposed.

What I don't want to do is be an alarmist. What I wanted to do with this paper is to address some obvious concerns, and I wanted to do it scientifically.

If I were to eat venison I wouldn't feel comfortable eating venison from areas where chronic wasting disease is endemic.

There are a lot of unknowns.

There's always the risk that there are unknown unknowns.