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Yes, but the article says that the instruments used in opthalmology can be vectors for the prions. OP is fine though assuming his operation was more than a year
by Invictus0 8y ago
Yes, but the article says that the instruments used in opthalmology can be vectors for the prions. OP is fine though assuming his operation was more than a year ago and he's not currently dead.
- armitron 8y agoPrion diseases have incubation periods that are very long (5 to 20 years). It is only after symptoms appear that the end is near (a year or less).
- Ma8ee 8y agoThe year is from the onset of the first symptoms. It said nothing about incubation period.
- erichurkman 8y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11721058?dopt=Abstract https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11721058?dopt=Abstract > we estimate that the mean duration of the incubation period is 16.7 years https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)69362-8/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... > A comprehensive statistical analysis had earlier reported that the mean incubation period was between 10.3 and 13.2 years, but the tail of the distribution was long. Using these estimates, we calculated that the upper 0.4% quantile was 40 years, and even larger for those infected young (>50 years), very much in line with these new observations.
- arkades 8y agoNo, it quoted the speculation. > them may then become contaminated, the authors write. They recommend single-use instruments or the adoption of new decontamination procedures for opthalmological equipment with better effectiveness on prions.