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Prions are truly scary, this article [0] from earlier this year is a bit more in-depth and links to many other interesting sources of information. One thing tha

• xkcd-sucks 8y ago
  Haha and if airborne prions have been deployed at scale in the recent past, nobody will even start to feel sick for years, and realizing it was a large scale attack will take decades + a team of epidemiologists Plus, it's like the only biologic easier than beer to manufacture, you just feed some animals to some other animals, wait a while and harvest. No clean rooms, no expensive lab equipment, nothing that looks out of the ordinary I do wonder if anyone is optimizing the structures for bioweapon use though Also an interesting crossover with aSyn aggregates in the gut being predictive of parkinsons/dementia, hmm