Fuck prions and the horse they rode in on. They’re not even alive, so you can’t kill them. No vaccine, no cure, and thoroughly cooking your food is still no guaranteed way to get rid of them.
Nature’s silent assassins, and they take their sweet time doing it too. By the time you first notice it’s already far too late.
Wdym too late? Is there something you could have done if you knew “soon enough”?
Prion vaccines would work for sure. Their rarity makes it not all that worthwhile as a public health measure
How do you vaccinate against a protein?
By the time you first notice it’s already far too late.
Not really, so long as you have already reproduced. From the perspective of your genes, “you” are expendable anyway:-(.
And if we want to do anything about that, perhaps we should properly fund scientific research.
Fucking prions, man. Scarier than most diseases. Remember kids: in a survival situation it’s okay to eat most of a Long Pig or a cow but don’t eat the brain. You just never know.
Depends on the task. Higher intellects tend to dismiss the simpler work, leaving it for the misfolded ones to work at
