But you have to consume the prion-infested food to actually get it. Pretty sure that Prion Diseases aren’t by skin contact or airborne.
assembly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Pretty sure that same person would need to also be suicidal as exposure would also infect them. I’m not a microbiologist but from what I understand, they are pretty resilient to everything that would destroy anything by else and even a slight accident exposure and you’re screwed.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Prion diseases aren’t really that infectious, you’d need to eat or inject the prions. They’re tough as hell, but they aren’t airborne.
assembly@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s good to know. I was thinking back to that researcher that was infected while taking precautions. Wish I could find the old story. Either way, prions are insanely scary. No treatment, certain death, not even alcohol or fire kills them.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
If it’s any consolation, prion disease occurance is almost entirely genetic. The mad cow scare in the EU in the early 00’s is really the only major case of a threat within the food supply, and it was pretty quickly fixed by changing how animals are handled (especially sick ones). Outside of that, the only other transmission between hosts has been observed in tribal rituals involving eating the brain of a loved one after they die, and improperly sterilized medical instruments used during brain/spinal surgery.
So don’t eat human brain and make sure that you’re getting your brain surgery done with either new instruments or ones that have been properly autoclaved and you should be good as long as you don’t just randomly get CJD due to genetics. Not much you can do about that, though.
You’ll probably get done in by heart disease, a car accident, and lightning a couple of dozen times before you need to worry about contracting a prison diseases.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
sure, I read this AFTER lunch.