I think I could have worded that better. I didn’t mean that it takes forever to “kill” the prions, but that prion diseases take years to kill their hosts.
As far as destroying the prions themselves, I believe that the primary method of sanitizing medical instruments is to soak them in bleach, then lye, then many hours in an autoclave.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I think I could have worded that better. I didn’t mean that it takes forever to “kill” the prions, but that prion diseases take years to kill their hosts.
As far as destroying the prions themselves, I believe that the primary method of sanitizing medical instruments is to soak them in bleach, then lye, then many hours in an autoclave.