[hajile]

The CDC disagrees with your assessment. Do you have any sources about this?

According to the CDC, CWD is spread NOT just through saliva, but also feces, blood, urine, etc.

In addition, it CAN spread to Squirrel monkeys. The long-term affects on macaques is still being established (on of the reasons kuru took so long to discover was that it took decades for the monkey to develop symptoms).

If exposure is dangerous to humans, what could we do? In the areas it has been in, it is spread everywhere the deer travel as they shed bodily fluids into the soil.

source -- https://www.cdc.gov/prions/cwd/transmission.html

[dnautics]

So I should have disclaimed that my information is as of 2009, which is the last time I touched this stuff, but that site said there was not successful transmission into monkeys in another experiment by the lab. I mean these experiments are extreme, high dose boluses of material straight into the brain. If at least one experiment failed to do that into monkeys that says something, even if they managed to get it in a later one, unless there was some revelation that they had done it wrong the first time.