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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoI like to think of it like a Mad Cow or Kuru, you can’t eat your own species’s brains or you could get a super lethal, contagious prion disease.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-22 months agoPrion diseases aren’t contagious. Edit: for the uninformed people that downvoted - clearly spelled out here https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/neurologic-disorders/prion-diseases/overview-of-prion-diseases
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•2 months agoYou can acquire it through direct contact, i.e. consuming prion-disease-contaminated meat. What would you call it?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoAlso, that’s not what direct contact means when discussing contagion: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150340/ Ingestion is not ‘direct contact’.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•2 months agoContagious means you can get it from direct or indirect contact with another person or organism that is infected. Not from eating them. That is not possible with prion disease. Ingesting a Petri dish full of flu virus doesn’t make the Petri dish ‘contagious’.
I like to think of it like a Mad Cow or Kuru, you can’t eat your own species’s brains or you could get a super lethal, contagious prion disease.
Prion diseases aren’t contagious.
Edit: for the uninformed people that downvoted - clearly spelled out here https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/neurologic-disorders/prion-diseases/overview-of-prion-diseases
You can acquire it through direct contact, i.e. consuming prion-disease-contaminated meat. What would you call it?
Also, that’s not what direct contact means when discussing contagion:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7150340/
Ingestion is not ‘direct contact’.
Contagious means you can get it from direct or indirect contact with another person or organism that is infected. Not from eating them.
That is not possible with prion disease.
Ingesting a Petri dish full of flu virus doesn’t make the Petri dish ‘contagious’.