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Indeed - it could equally be explained by dementia/Alzheimer’s being a contagious disease, such as a prion or similar protein malformation, which quite a bit of
by madaxe_again 3y ago
Indeed - it could equally be explained by dementia/Alzheimer’s being a contagious disease, such as a prion or similar protein malformation, which quite a bit of current research seems to suggest, and it simply had not become endemic at that point.
- londons_explore 3y agoIt disappoints me that something which severely impacts the lives of perhaps one third of humans isn't better understood. If it were a prison disease, surely with ~2 billion data points of those with/without dementia, we would have isolated exactly what molecule causes it and how it gets transmitted from person to person.
- salawat 3y agoCures are not good business. Treatments are. Treatments of minimal or dubious efficacy even moreso. Track the incentives.
- v4dok 3y agoDo you have any research you can point for that, its quite interesting.