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> Basically, you get infected, you die. Avoid cannibalism and you should be fine. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-pe
by rs999gti 5y ago
> Basically, you get infected, you die.
Avoid cannibalism and you should be fine.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/wh...
- hammock 5y ago>Avoid cannibalism and you should be fine. And animal brains, and the areas around experimental research labs...
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- Marsymars 5y agoAlso see dura mater grafts: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6709a3.htm https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6709a3.htm
- M2Ys4U 5y agoAvoid eating British beef in the 1980s/1990s, too. Apparently 1 in 2,000 people in the UK may be infected.[0] We still don't know if there's going to be a second wave of disease from infections from that time period due to genetic factors influencing incubation of the disease. This is why people who were in the UK for longer than a few months during the 80s and 90s aren't allowed to give blood in various places around the world. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24525584 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24525584
- croes 5y agoAnd don't feed beef to cows.
- yhoneycomb 5y agoSerious question should I be avoiding traveling to the UK over this??
- hef19898 5y agoNo, that was 20-30 years ago.
- dangerbird2 5y agoAt this point, the best prevention is to avoid eating anyone who lived in Britain 20-30 years ago
- hef19898 5y agoHopefully that's something we can all agree upon!
- heavenlyblue 5y agoYou forgot anyone who ate anyone who lived in Britain 20-30 years ago.
- acjohnson55 5y agoNope, but do avoid eating any British people over the age of 20.
- anthk 5y agoI was there with the mad cow disease. Not in the UK, but in Spain, as commerce inside the EU made people truly paranoid on eating meat from "untrusted" sources. Scary, really scary.
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- AuryGlenz 5y agoThe mediation HCG is processed from pregnant women’s urine and has been shown to potentially contain prions. I took it for years. Yay. The sad thing is there’s a recombinant version that would be safe, but it also costs thousands of dollars.
- Johnny555 5y agoAnd avoid being in the same room with someone that’s been infected: In a 2011 paper, his team reported that prions can spread through aerosols