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A friend of mine got infected with prions. Well, it’s what the doctors believe since all other tests came up negative. They aren’t 100% sure but have documented
by nemo44x 4y ago
A friend of mine got infected with prions. Well, it’s what the doctors believe since all other tests came up negative. They aren’t 100% sure but have documented it as that.
It’s amazing how quickly he degenerated. He was feeling weird physically and mentally and went to a doctor. Within a few months he was a different person but could recognize friends. He needed assistance for living. Within a year he was completely mentally gone. Just a different person with no means of communicating or doing anything for himself. Just completely sad.
- bread90 4y agoHow’d he get it you think?
- radicaldreamer 4y agoHere's a case where they're pretty sure it was all the vitamins and supplements in collagen capsules that the patient consumed for years https://n.neurology.org/content/98/18_Supplement/3654 https://n.neurology.org/content/98/18_Supplement/3654
- nemo44x 4y agoNo one has any idea. He wasn’t exposed to anything that would be high risk for it, if that’s even a thing. As another person commented here, it sounds like it’s spontaneous in many cases. Or at least that’s our best answer.
- Auracle 4y agoYou can spontaneously misfold a protein yourself. After a quick look on Wikipedia for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: "An EU study determined that "87% of cases were sporadic, 8% genetic, 5% iatrogenic and less than 1% variant."[22]"