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[–] JJROKCZ 88 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Prion disease is a terrible way to die, stay away from brains folks

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Baby brains are much less likely to have any prions.

[–] JJROKCZ 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea it would’ve cost nothing for you to not write that

[–] PR3CiSiON 14 points 1 year ago

Yeah but then I wouldn't have known I was safe.

[–] zepheriths 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which one?That's like saying virus is a bad way to die

[–] atomicorange 33 points 1 year ago

All of them. Every prion disease affects the same protein in the brain. They’re all 100% fatal degenerative encephalitis diseases and they just plain suck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m sure that if I got prion disease, I would die of something else…