[donna]

would not be routinely removed from surgical instruments; standard sterilization procedures cannot shift them

If you have surgery with anything other than new instruments you will get Alzheimer's?

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Very similar to Mad Cow disease.

[The Antiyuppie]

This is alarming, because in certain dental procedures, they use or have used cadaver bone (of course, completely sterlized of all normal biological traces). But I have read that prions can survive normal sterilization.

[ghosthost]

when the average person hears “transmissible” you think you can get it from sneezing- this is implanted brain matter. I think I’m safe. geez