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"prions are also responsible for 'mad cow disease', Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) as well as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease" ... and scrapie in sheep, and
by walnutclosefarm 5y ago
"prions are also responsible for 'mad cow disease', Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) as well as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease" ...
and scrapie in sheep, and Chronic Wasting Disease in deer and other wild Cervidae in North America. The latter is increasingly common in the US, although its wide spread is recent enough that little is known as to whether it is being transmitted back to humans through hunting and processing of deer.
- b112 5y agoYes, noticed signs about the deer, in stores all over rural Quebec..
- ncmncm 5y agoAnd, not just deer, but various other even non-ungulate mammals. Maybe reptiles too, dunno if anybody is checking.
- sizzle 5y agoThis sounds like a twist on the plot of World War Z but kicked off by a newly discovered, highly contagious rapid onset form of human prion disease spreading across the population and turning people into the living dead with Mad Human Disease (i.e. becoming homicidal and deranged while their brains rapidly deteriorate), the difference from zombies in this plot however is that even if you kill them to save your life, you risk exposing yourself to the mutated prions even after their death and nothing can limit your exposure, they are essentially radioactive to be around and their human form prions persist long after their body is gone, leeching into the ground, water, air when physically disturbed, etc. Anyone care to modify my plot to make it spicier?
- mardifoufs 5y agoSomething about the whole world almost completely focusing on another threat/pandemic while the zombie deers are silently lurking in the woods?
- sizzle 5y agoI like the premise, keep it going!