Prions are fucking scary.
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Right up there with aneurysms.
5 years or so ago I would be WTFing at this headline and sending the article to everyone. Now my reaction is just 'Yeah sure why the fuck not.'
Prion disease seem almost quaint now.
Aliens could invade tomorrow and id probably just keep scrolling.
I know the feeling, my son is an alien. My wife was impregnated by the aliens during one of my trips to visit Marfa, Texas.
Recovering.....recovering.....RECOVERED!!
Wait shit i forgot.
"Great. How are they going to fuck this up too?"
My 2024 bingo card had world ending asteroids, but hey, zombies is fun.
Once an environment is infected, the pathogen is extremely hard to eradicate. It can persist for years in dirt or on surfaces, and scientists report it is resistant to disinfectants, formaldehyde, radiation and incineration at 600C (1,100F).
This has me wondering, what happens to prions in the environment, ultimately? Presumably they're nothing new, so if they're that hard to destroy, shouldn't they just have been building up in the environment ever since the first ones formed? Does something eat them, somehow?
I, for one, didn't have zombie apocalypse on my 2024 bingo card.
Novice...
Deer zombie apocalypse
Is this is how the zombie apocalypse starts? Deer disease?
Welp, there’s my nightmare fuel for the day. Already knew prions were damnably difficult to get rid of on surfaces etc, hadn’t co soldered that CWD could realistically make the jump to humans.
A grim thought: wouldn't the only way to deal with this effectively be... wiping out the dear population in an infected region?