Lynn from Fargo Ografmorffig > wrote:

>In Kentucky, they have a problem with squirrels in Burgoo (stew like
>Brunswick sorta). They do have a wasting disease related to Jakob-
>Creutzer (sp?) it's a prion disease like "mad cow" only transferred
>by ingesting brain or nerve tissue.
>Please correct me if I got it wrong,

It is hard to say. There is a report about mad squirrel disease
in Kentucky on rense.com, an interesting website but I do not
know about their fact-checking. The Wikipedia article on prion disease
does not list squirrel as an affected species (the ones listed
are humans, goats, sheep, cow, mink, elk, deer, nyala, and
greater kudu). Lab scientists have succeeded in infecting
_Saimiri sciureus_, the new world squirrel monkey, with prions
but it has not occured in nature.

So I am not sure about mad squirrel.

Steve