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Prions aren't airborne. vCJD and mad cow spread by a feedback loop involving slaughtered infected animal brains being fed to the same animal stock. This case
by newacct583 5y ago
Prions aren't airborne. vCJD and mad cow spread by a feedback loop involving slaughtered infected animal brains being fed to the same animal stock. This case was a technician who stabbed herself with a tool heavily coated in brain matter from infected animals. It's not like a virus where just a few particles is enough to bootstrap an infection. At least, it's never been seen.
- newsbinator 5y agoPrions can be airborne. > "Common knowledge is that prions aren't airborne, and can't cause infection that way," said neuropathologist Adriano Aguzzi of University Hospital Zurich, co-author of a study appearing today in PLoS Pathogens. "We were totally surprised and also a bit frightened at how efficient [airborne infections] were." https://www.wired.com/2011/01/airborne-prions-disease/ https://www.wired.com/2011/01/airborne-prions-disease/
- newacct583 5y agoPrion diseases aren't airborne. Yes, you can aerosolize them mechanically and get them to infect mice in a lab. There has never been a known case of airborne transmission between two animals. The shed load just isn't remotely high enough, being a brain plaque and not a respiratory infection.