Another disease that involves prions is fatal familial incoming. Kuru is also one that is a variant of CJD that involves eating human CNS tissue. It was found amongst the cannibal tribes of New Guinea
“The condition consists of exclusively brain-related symptoms: hallucinations, personality changes, impaired thinking, and difficulty speaking or moving. “
Oh.... is that what Hillary has ?
This is the human form of mad cow disease. It can be transferred from the meat of diseased cows to humans. If you remember, it was big in Britain a few years back.
Does the disease occur in vegan’s?
I’ve read that basically dead animals were rendered down to get the protein then it was fed to animals mixed in with their feed. This protein was also fed to deer and elk by game management. The prions are a missed shaped protein molecule.
I tend to hate many vegans because they preach a militant forced morality rather than their life style health benefits.
There are a few causes for concern. One is prions are everywhere, in feces and seawater to name a couple. Marine mammals seem to be especially vulnerable. Caregivers of Alzheimer patients are seven times more likely to come down with the disease compared to the general population.
Saw something on 60 Minutes a while back about Doctor’s using the Polio Virus to treat Brain Tumors.
Don’t know if it is specific to a certain kind of Tumor, but the treatment worked in many cases.