The link is not 100% but two hunters eating from the same deer population and falling ill at around the same time is extremely unlikely to be a coincidence.
We are essentially one mutation away from this spreading between humans and that would be very, very bad.
It’s going to be in the soil for a very long time![emoji yea yea](https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/c8895c43-ab88-444a-a6d2-ece247ef60ff.png)
Hope the prion uptake from eating contaminated plants isn’t too frequent