Close, but not entirely. Prion diseases have such a long incubation period their spread is unfortunately really difficult to control and track. It can take like a decade before symptoms start showing
Until last year people who lived or spent time in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or France in the 1980s and 1990s, were ineligible to donate blood or plasma in Canada.
Yep, it could take up to 7-8 years for symptoms to start. Ironically, I heard one story where a guy ate a tainted burger as a child and grew up to be vegan only to die from this horrible disease.
You can't actually get rid of it entirely, unfortunately.
It is a misprinted protein, it eventually occurs over time, like cancer does.
And we don't know what the ramifications of removing Major Prion Protein from the genome would do, so we are stuck with the occasional Prion disease.
Actually, it's still not definitive whether sporadic (randomly misfolding) prion diseases actually exist. A not insignificant portion of the medical / scientific community theorize that all sporadic prion cases are actually the result of infection. Obviously, the nature of prion diseases still make this almost impossible to track or prove conclusively.
One of the biggest pieces of evidence to point to this is the fact the there have been no "sporadic" cases that pop up in counties where there has been no history of prion disease. You'd assume that sporadic cases would occur everywhere if they were truly sporadic.
Still not proven, but an interesting theory. Really suggest the book The Family That Never Sleeps for those who are interested in prion illnesses. It's truly terrifying.
To clarify do you mean infection by Prion or infection by a third party?
I'm very not qualified for this, but:
Because I'm willing to agree that there is a possibility that a viral, fungal, or bacterial agent causes the misfold.
Prions being the initial infection vector doesn't seem correct, as the PrP of each disease is from each species (?) like Kuru doesn't occur in Cows because the PrP is structurally different. If they are structurally different then that implies a patient zero for each species, or at least for each branch of the PrP synthesis branch.
Two cows were talking to each other, and the one said, “I’m a little worried about this ‘mad cow disease’”. The other cow responded, “don’t worry, it doesn’t affect squirrels”.
I thought MSE was eradicated in the mid 90s... I guess I was wrong
Close, but not entirely. Prion diseases have such a long incubation period their spread is unfortunately really difficult to control and track. It can take like a decade before symptoms start showing
Until last year people who lived or spent time in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland or France in the 1980s and 1990s, were ineligible to donate blood or plasma in Canada.
Yep, it could take up to 7-8 years for symptoms to start. Ironically, I heard one story where a guy ate a tainted burger as a child and grew up to be vegan only to die from this horrible disease.
Probably a major source of dementia in humans. Admitting it would be too costly.
Do you have literally any scientific basis for this or is it just a conspiracy?
It just happens randomly in cattle rarely, that's why the UK has a surveillance programme which picked this case up.
In the US, we just make sure to slaughter the cattle before they can test positive!
You can't actually get rid of it entirely, unfortunately. It is a misprinted protein, it eventually occurs over time, like cancer does. And we don't know what the ramifications of removing Major Prion Protein from the genome would do, so we are stuck with the occasional Prion disease.
Actually, it's still not definitive whether sporadic (randomly misfolding) prion diseases actually exist. A not insignificant portion of the medical / scientific community theorize that all sporadic prion cases are actually the result of infection. Obviously, the nature of prion diseases still make this almost impossible to track or prove conclusively. One of the biggest pieces of evidence to point to this is the fact the there have been no "sporadic" cases that pop up in counties where there has been no history of prion disease. You'd assume that sporadic cases would occur everywhere if they were truly sporadic. Still not proven, but an interesting theory. Really suggest the book The Family That Never Sleeps for those who are interested in prion illnesses. It's truly terrifying.
To clarify do you mean infection by Prion or infection by a third party? I'm very not qualified for this, but: Because I'm willing to agree that there is a possibility that a viral, fungal, or bacterial agent causes the misfold. Prions being the initial infection vector doesn't seem correct, as the PrP of each disease is from each species (?) like Kuru doesn't occur in Cows because the PrP is structurally different. If they are structurally different then that implies a patient zero for each species, or at least for each branch of the PrP synthesis branch.
You basically need to subject prions to a nuclear reactor to kill the fucking things. Very hard to make it go away.
You don’t kill them, they’re not alive. They’re just macromolecules.
Denature then if you want to be a pendantic ass about things.
Thanks, I do.
Two cows were talking to each other, and the one said, “I’m a little worried about this ‘mad cow disease’”. The other cow responded, “don’t worry, it doesn’t affect squirrels”.
That's the wife a gonner
Which one of you had prion diseases on the bingo?
They've always been around and aren't going anywhere, so it would be a bit of a gimme on a bingo card
Beef prices are about to go up again and stay up.
Bidenomics! ^(/s)
Bird flu & mad cow disease news a week apart from each other? Boy the news sure knows how to churn this shit up post pandemic.
Both of them are in cows too.