The prions are environmentally there are do not degrade. It’s that crazy of an issue. We don’t understand them. Not even close. It would be like you body building collagen in your body but if is sequences correct but one are folds left rather than right and causes the modified collagen to cause your brain/body to fall apart. It is that simple.
Coming to a Chinese lab near you....
AI suggested 40,000 new possible chemical weapons in just six hours
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/17/22983197/ai-new-possible-chemical-weapons-generative-models-vx
potentially lethal molecules. Researchers put AI normally used to search for helpful drugs into a kind of “bad actor” mode to show how easily it could be abused at a biological arms control conference.
All the researchers had to do was tweak their methodology to seek out, rather than weed out toxicity. The AI came up with tens of thousands of new substances, some of which are similar to VX, the most potent nerve agent ever developed. Shaken, they published their findings this month in the journal Nature Machine Intelligence.