Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-9041013-20180706200603/@comment-9041013-20180707085758

DrBobSmith wrote:

BloodySpaghetti,

This being some sort of reference to a real world disease is WAY too subtle. Isn't CWD a disease that deer suffer from? Yes, I read of the two monkies that contracted it and that is of course concerning, but so far it hasn't made it all the way into the human population.

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BloodySpghetti wrote:

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"it seems like we'd been cut off from the rest of the world; nobody has come from out-of-town for weeks now and none of us could the authorities for just as long." The part in italics is extremely difficult to understand. I suggest that you rephrase it. Well, we have human versions of the disease in both CJD, it's deviant type and Kuru. Since all are a result of misfolded proteins in the brain known as Prions, we don't know much about them. This of course allowed me to take the CWD and apply it to humans in a "new strain" kind of story.

My main point in what I told you was, we have a lot of very serious illnesses roaming around possibly on their path to wipe out species and no one seems to bat an eye. Have you heard that the Tasmanian Devils are endangered mostly because of some type of a contagious cancer? Even if you did, I'm sure many others did not.