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Prions are fucking scary. They survive all regular decontamination procedures - alcohol, boiling, even autoclave. Patients had been infected through the sterili
by imaginenore 11y ago
Prions are fucking scary. They survive all regular decontamination procedures - alcohol, boiling, even autoclave. Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes.
- azazqadir 11y ago>>Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes. For someone who had an endoscope recently, that's really scary.
- zymhan 11y agoI mean, people were also at times infected with HIV and Hepatitis C from blood transfusions, but we realized the risk and took steps to mitigate it.
- drunken-serval 11y agoThey don't survive bleach though. Which is helpful.